Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments · Lab experiment

Meet the zombosome.

Paper: Zombosomes are anucleated cell couriers that spread α-synuclein pathology
Dakhel et al. · Cell Reports 2026 · doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116831

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Meet the zombosome. A fragment of a brain support cell with no nucleus that still crawls around. Researchers found these fragments can carry clumps of a Parkinson's protein from cell to cell.

AI-assisted summary with an AI voice, not reviewed by the authors. Made from the paper under its CC BY licence. Read the paper before relying on a finding. Keywords: astrocytes, alpha-synuclein aggregates, Parkinson's disease, disease propagation, intercellular transfer, vimentin.