Look out folks, Parkinson’s disease is about to collide and meet Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley which encompasses San Jose, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, or basically the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area is know as Silcon Valley because at one point there were a large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but has more recently been known as the high-tech place to be. There are a number of large high-tech companies that are headquartered there including Google, Intel, Yahoo, eBay, HP, and many, many more.
It seems that recently there has been a lot of buzz about how the high-tech regions have begun to spin the powers into different parts of the economy, the latest move they are making is into the world of Parkinson’s disease. The Parkinson’s Institute and 23andMe are collaborating to build a site that enables forums and other functionality to begin researching and delving into Parkinson’s disease in a deeper way then before. The idea stems from Google, in fact the founder of Google, Sergey Brin, is probably the biggest mover and shaker in making this happening. The idea of collecting data about Parkinson’s data will be done much like Google collects its data from the web and from its users.
The Michael J. Fox Organization and Google have donated up to 3.2 million dollars to help begin this great project. We’ll keep you updated as this project continues to develop.
