Hospital.Help

Tokyo – Japanese researchers have stopped the spread of a synucleinopathy, which in humans includes Parkinson’s disease, in mice by injecting antisense oligonucleotides into the brain. The results presented in Acta Neuropathologica Communications (2024; DOI: 10.1186/s40478-024-01766-3) confirm the assumption that the disease spreads in the brain like a prion. In Parkinson’s disease, however…