How To Protect The Brain In Old Age (and Stop Alzheimer's)
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 05:00
in Health & Medicine
A collaboration between scientists in the UK, Portugal and Germany have solved the structure of kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO), a protein implicated in the neurodegeneration (destruction of nerve cells) seen in diseases associated with old age, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. The study, which appears today in the journal Nature , also reveals how to block KMO in a major first step to develop a promising new therapeutic approach for a group of diseases that, despite affecting millions worldwide, remain without cure or treatment. read more