{"id":230298,"date":"2026-02-01T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/missing-link-between-parkinsons-protein-and-damage-to-brain-cells-discovered"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:05:38","slug":"missing-link-between-parkinsons-protein-and-damage-to-brain-cells-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/missing-link-between-parkinsons-protein-and-damage-to-brain-cells-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Missing Link Between Parkinson\u2019s Protein And Damage to Brain Cells Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/missing-link-between-parkinsons-protein-and-damage-to-brain-cells-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IYl\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Parkinson\u2019s<\/a> disease and the death of critical brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>The result of three years of research, the discovery connects alpha-synuclein proteins to a breakdown in mitochondrial function, both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/protein-that-pokes-holes-in-cells-could-explain-parkinsons-decline\">previously linked<\/a> to Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve uncovered a harmful interaction between proteins that damages the brain\u2019s cellular powerhouses, called mitochondria,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/case.edu\/news\/researchers-discover-potential-new-target-treat-parkinsons-disease\">says<\/a> neuroscientist Xin Qi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition Parkinson\u2019s disease and the death of critical brain cells. The result of three years of research, the discovery connects alpha-synuclein proteins to a breakdown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230298","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\/230298","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}