Parkinson’s and Tuberculosis Linked through Immune Cell Mechanism

Six degrees of separation is an early 20 th -century philosophy that all living things are inextricably linked in not such distant ways. While social media and network theory has added new life to the abstract concept in recent years, close connections in the biology realm have remained more enigmatic. Yet now, new evidence from investigators at the Francis Crick Institute, Newcastle University, and GlaxoSmithKline have found a connection between two seemingly disparate diseases: Parkinson&rsquo