{"id":211697,"date":"2025-04-17T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/parkinsons-disease-protein-drives-skin-cancer"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:34:35","slug":"parkinsons-disease-protein-drives-skin-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/parkinsons-disease-protein-drives-skin-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson\u2019s disease protein drives skin cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parkinsons-disease-protein-drives-skin-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small protein involved in neurodegeneration leading to Parkinson\u2019s disease also drives a type of skin cancer known as melanoma, new research finds.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, suggests new avenues for drug development to reduce the risk of developing <i>both<\/i> Parkinson\u2019s and skin cancer by targeting the alpha-synuclein protein, which appears to have a critical role in regulating cellular functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeveloping drugs that target alpha-synuclein may be useful in both diseases,\u201d said the senior author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small protein involved in neurodegeneration leading to Parkinson\u2019s disease also drives a type of skin cancer known as melanoma, new research finds. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests new avenues for drug development to reduce the risk of developing both Parkinson\u2019s and skin cancer by targeting the alpha-synuclein protein, which appears [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211697","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}