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Cooling ‘brains on fire’ to treat Parkinson’s

A promising new therapy to stop Parkinson’s disease in its tracks has been developed at The University of Queensland. UQ Faculty of Medicine researcher Associate Professor Trent Woodruff said the team found that a small molecule, MCC950, stopped the development of Parkinson’s in several animal models. The NLRP3 inflammasome (green) is expressed by immune cells...