{"id":223184,"date":"2025-10-10T04:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-just-found-a-molecule-that-could-stop-parkinsons-in-its-tracks"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:02:43","slug":"scientists-just-found-a-molecule-that-could-stop-parkinsons-in-its-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-just-found-a-molecule-that-could-stop-parkinsons-in-its-tracks","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just found a molecule that could stop Parkinson\u2019s in its tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-found-a-molecule-that-could-stop-parkinsons-in-its-tracks.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have designed a peptide that prevents the deadly misfolding of alpha-synuclein, the protein behind Parkinson\u2019s and some dementias. In lab and animal tests, it stabilized the protein and improved motor function. The work demonstrates the power of rational drug design in tackling brain diseases that have long lacked effective treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have designed a peptide that prevents the deadly misfolding of alpha-synuclein, the protein behind Parkinson\u2019s and some dementias. In lab and animal tests, it stabilized the protein and improved motor function. The work demonstrates the power of rational drug design in tackling brain diseases that have long lacked effective treatments.<\/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-223184","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\/223184","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=223184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}