{"id":208645,"date":"2025-03-13T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-make-life-changing-discovery-over-protein-linked-with-parkinsons"},"modified":"2025-03-13T23:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:09:51","slug":"scientists-make-life-changing-discovery-over-protein-linked-with-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-make-life-changing-discovery-over-protein-linked-with-parkinsons","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make \u2018life-changing\u2019 discovery over protein linked with Parkinson\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-make-life-changing-discovery-over-protein-linked-with-parkinsons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/scientists\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Scientists<\/a> have made a potentially \u201clife-changing\u201d discovery that could pave the way for new drugs to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have known for several decades that the PINK1 protein is directly linked to Parkinson\u2019s disease \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/uk\/home-news\/academics-bmj-beijing-symptoms-east-asia-b2709819.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> fastest growing<\/a> neurodegenerative condition in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, no one has seen what human PINK1 looks like, how PINK1 attaches to the surface of damaged mitochondria inside of cells, or how it is activated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have made a potentially \u201clife-changing\u201d discovery that could pave the way for new drugs to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease. Experts have known for several decades that the PINK1 protein is directly linked to Parkinson\u2019s disease \u2013 the fastest growing neurodegenerative condition in the world. Until now, no one has seen what human PINK1 looks like, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208645","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}