Treatment for cancer could also effectively slow Parkinson’s progression

Friday, September 30, 2016 - 19:21 in Health & Medicine

An immunotherapy already in clinical trials as a cancer treatment should also be tested as a way to slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease, researchers at Johns Hopkins say. The research team has identified a protein that enables a toxic natural aggregate to spread from cell to cell in a mammal’s brain, the process by […]

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