A new kind of antibody targets a feature shared by proteins thought to cause the most damage in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and related conditions, creating potential for a uni... Read more
DNA strands in materials act like traffic signals to start, stop cell activity or regenerate tissue A groundbreaking advancement in materials from Northwestern University could potentially h... Read more
A new low-cost and non-invasive eye test could detect Parkinson’s disease before symptoms including tremors and muscle stiffness develop, according to new research in rats led by scientists... Read more
Rutgers and Stanford scientists develop novel way to inject healthy human nerve cells into the brain Scientists at Rutgers and Stanford universities have created a new technology that could... Read more
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and Boston University have successfully shown neuroprotection in a Parkinson’s mouse model using new techniques to deliver dru... Read more
PARKINSON’S DISEASE An estimated seven to ten million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), which is an incurable and progressive disease of the nervous syst... Read more
Scientists at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy are creating white blood cells that teach brain cells to heal the damage caused by degenerative neurological disorders like Parkinson’s dise... Read more
Headband-shaped device designed by grad students could be a promising in-home treatment option Parkinson’s disease patients whose symptoms such as tremor, muscle stiffness and slowed m... Read more
In tests using animals, drug successfully seeks and disarms toxic clumps of proteins responsible for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s An international team of more than 18 research groups has dem... Read more
Researchers have determined that a copper compound known for decades may form the basis for a therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease. In a new study just pu... Read more
The most effective way to tackle debilitating diseases is to punch them at the start and keep them from growing. Research at Michigan State University, published in the Journal of Biological... Read more
Scientists report that they have developed a novel compound that appears to protect mice against developing movement problems associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The research, which co... Read more
“Nobody has talked about using only light to treat these diseases until now” Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with researchers at the Polish Wroclaw... Read more
Scientists believe they could be on the cusp of a medical breakthrough which could bring hope to thousands of Parkinson’s sufferers. They’ve injected brain cells from pigs into h... Read more
How awesome would it be if people living with tremors could eat their meals without the indignity of spilling food all over? Lift Labs (San Francisco, CA) has developed patented spoon techno... Read more
