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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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New Therapies Targeting Parkinson’s Disease May Cause Harm

In a post dated 20 March, Science Daily  reports that NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Mayo Clinic researchers have partnered on a study that shows genetic and clinical evidence that…

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Mechanism That Leads to Sporadic Parkinson’s Disease Identified

Researchers in the Taub Institute at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified a mechanism that appears to underlie the common sporadic (non-familial) form of Parkinson’s disease. The discovery highlights…

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Researchers Closer to Early Detection of Parkinson’s

In collaboration with colleagues at Oxford, a team of researchers at Umeå University in Sweden has now further elaborated its discovery of a way to detect Parkinson’s disease at an…

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Molecular ‘on/off’ switch for Parkinson’s discovered by Dundee scientists

Scientists in Dario Alessi’s group at the University of Dundee have discovered a new molecular switch that may be the key to why nerve cells die in Parkinson’s. Around 5%…

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