Coffee could offer key ingredient for new treatments for Parkinson's disease

Monday, September 5, 2011 - 08:01 in Health & Medicine

Scientists from Heptares Therapeutics have used Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to understand the structure of a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders. Their findings, published this week in the journal Structure, could pave the way for a new generation of targeted drug treatments.

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