by Charlotte Hsu, University at Buffalo Research by University at Buffalo biologists is providing new insights into alpha-synuclein, a small acidic protein associated with Parkinson’s disease. Alpha-synuclein is known to form abnormal clumps in the brains of patients with Parkinson’s, but scientists are still trying to understand how and why this happens. The new study...
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Researchers examining Parkinson’s resilience
Diseases have a spectrum of risk, even those partially embedded in genes such as Parkinson’s disease. C. elegans, seen here as hundreds living on a plate viewed through the lens of a microscope, share roughly half their genes with humans. Credit: the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa Less than 10 percent of those with Parkinson’s...
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A new insight into Parkinson’s disease protein
Abnormal clumps of certain proteins in the brain are a prominent feature of Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, but the role those same proteins might play in the normal brain has been unknown. Now, new research by UC San Francisco neuroscientist Robert Edwards, MD, has uncovered the role of one such protein, known as alpha-synuclein, which has...