# A woman named Joy Milne claimed she could smell parkinson's disease. To test her, doctors gave her 12 t-shirts to smell six of them were from Parkinson's patients

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[https://people.com/woman-who-can-smell-parkinsons-disease-helping-to-develop-a-swab-test-11703888](https://people.com/woman-who-can-smell-parkinsons-disease-helping-to-develop-a-swab-test-11703888)

> **[Discovery of Volatile Biomarkers of Parkinson’s Disease from Sebum](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6487537/)**
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> Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease that presents with significant motor symptoms, for which there is no diagnostic chemical test. We have serendipitously identified a hyperosmic individual, a “Super Smeller” who...