20th January 2021
Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a discovery they believe has the potential to put the brakes on the ‘runaway train’ that is Parkinson’s disease.
Professor Dario Alessi, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit MRC-PPU, said, “Parkinson’s is like a runaway train – at present we have no way of putting the brakes on to slow it down, let alone stop it. This new enzyme we have found acts as the brakes in the pathway that causes Parkinson’s in humans.
