Researchers Uncover New Biological Target For Combating Parkinson's Disease
Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have brought new clarity to the picture of what goes awry in the brain during Parkinson's disease and identified a compound that eases the disease's symptoms in mice. Their discoveries, described in a paper published online in Nature Neuroscience on August 25, also overturn established ideas about the role of a protein considered key to the disease's progress.