{"id":32833,"date":"2016-12-21T13:27:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/newly-discovered-disease-could-hold-key-to-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-even-ageing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:16","slug":"newly-discovered-disease-could-hold-key-to-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-even-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/newly-discovered-disease-could-hold-key-to-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-even-ageing","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered disease could hold key to Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s \u2013 and even ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-disease-could-hold-key-to-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-even-ageing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new genetic disease has been discovered that could play a key role in devastating brain conditions such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s, opening up the possibility of new forms of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A 47-year-old Canadian woman, who had been having difficulty walking and balancing since she was 28, was found to have a new genetic disease after 10 known conditions were ruled out, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature20790\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a paper in the journal <em>Nature<\/em> by an international team of researchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The disease causes an over-reaction by the body\u2019s natural repair system. An enzyme, known as PARP1, goes into over-drive, ultimately causing the deaths of brain cells.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/dementia-alzheimers-parkinsons-disease-genetic-condition-ageing-a7489111.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/dementia-alzheimer...89111.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new genetic disease has been discovered that could play a key role in devastating brain conditions such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s, opening up the possibility of new forms of treatment. A 47-year-old Canadian woman, who had been having difficulty walking and balancing since she was 28, was found to have a new genetic disease [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59422,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions\/59422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}