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Brain ‘traffic jams’ drive Parkinson’s symptoms

Stopping cellular tailbacks could speed the way to therapies.

Using a zoo of animals from yeast to rats, US scientists have shown that speeding the flow of proteins in cells might relieve one of the underlying causes of Parkinson’s disease.

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Posted by Michael Hopkin on June 22, 2006 07:00 PM |

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