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Missing Link Between Parkinson's Protein And Damage to Brain Cells Discovered


An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition Parkinson's disease and the death of critical brain cells.

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