{"id":132126,"date":"2021-12-10T19:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T03:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/are-scientists-homing-in-on-a-cure-for-parkinsons-disease"},"modified":"2021-12-10T19:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T03:24:31","slug":"are-scientists-homing-in-on-a-cure-for-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/are-scientists-homing-in-on-a-cure-for-parkinsons-disease","title":{"rendered":"Are Scientists Homing in on a Cure for Parkinson\u2019s Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-scientists-homing-in-on-a-cure-for-parkinsons-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have refined a molecule that shows promise for the prevention of Parkinson\u2019s disease.\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>Researchers have refined a molecule that shows promise for the prevention of Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>University of Bath<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A molecule that shows promise in preventing Parkinson\u2019s disease has been refined by scientists at the University of Bath in the UK, and has the potential to be developed into a drug to treat the deadly neurodegenerative disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Jody Mason, who led the research from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at Bath, said: \u201cA lot of work still needs to happen, but this molecule has the potential to be a pre-cursor to a drug. Today there are only medicines to treat the symptoms of Parkinson\u2019s\u2014we hope to develop a drug that can return people to good health even before symptoms develop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have refined a molecule that shows promise for the prevention of Parkinson\u2019s disease.\u2026 See more. Summary: Researchers have refined a molecule that shows promise for the prevention of Parkinson\u2019s disease. Source: University of Bath A molecule that shows promise in preventing Parkinson\u2019s disease has been refined by scientists at the University of Bath in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}