Lessons from yeast: A possible cure for Parkinson's disease?
Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 16:56
in Health & Medicine
Parkinson disease (PD) is a debilitating and lethal neurodegenerative disease, for which there is currently no cure. It is caused by the progressive loss of nerve cells that produce the chemical dopamine and is characterized by the accumulation of abnormal aggregates of a protein called alpha-syn in these dopaminergic nerve cells.