Parkinson's Disease Protein Causes Disease Spread and Neuron Death in Healthy Animals (VIDEO)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been able to piece together important steps in how Parkinson’s disease (PD) spreads from cell to cell and leads to nerve cell death.

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