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Michael J. Fox Foundation awards grant for Exenatide research

Following encouraging results recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation describing the progress of a cohort of patients treated with Exenatide for their Parkinson’s disease (PD), The Michael J.…

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Stem Cell Programming Advance

Scientists based at the University of Edinburgh’s MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) and Anne Rowling Clinic have taken a vital step forward in understanding how cells from skin tissue…

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Exenatide may be disease-modifying for PD

Exenatide is a type 2 diabetes treatment that has been shown to have neuroprotective/neurorestorative properties in preclinical models of neurodegeneration. A new study by Aviles-Olmos et al published in the…

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Brain-Imaging Technique Can Help Diagnose Movement Disorders

A new University of Florida study suggests a promising brain-imaging technique has the potential to improve diagnoses for the millions of people with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Science…

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New Animal Model Provides Important Clues On Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease

In a post dated 24 May,  Science Daily reports that scientists at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn have developed a novel experimental model that reproduces for…

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Important advance in disease-modifying therapy

A team of German researchers led by Jens Wagner, Sergey Ryazanov, Andrei Leonov, Johannes Levin and Song Shi, reports an important breakthrough in the search for disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson’s…

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