A potential new treatment for neurodegenerative disorders, which seems to be able to reduce the toxic protein aggregates characteristic of many of these diseases, is described online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences¹. Since it is believed that in most neurodegenerative disorders, like Parkinson and Huntington’s disease (PD and HD respectively), abnormal protein aggregates are major culprits associated with neurodegeneration, this research may have important implications for the lives of thousands of neurodegenerative patients all over the world.

* "This article is the result of a project for the divulgation of portuguese science" http://www.cienciahoje.pt/1455"