New understanding about Parkinson’s

Researchers from Israel’s Technion and Harvard have a new theory on how Parkinson’s disease develops. The responsible toxic protein alpha-synuclein doesn’t spread like an infection but accumulates throughout the body. It could change the way the neurological disease is treated.

https://www.israel21c.org/harvard-technion-study-suggests-new-parkinsons-theory/

http://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/abstract/S0166-2236(16)30145-X

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