{"id":92015,"date":"2019-06-13T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/breaking-down-%ce%b1-synuclein-aggregates"},"modified":"2019-06-13T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:56:44","slug":"breaking-down-%ce%b1-synuclein-aggregates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/breaking-down-%ce%b1-synuclein-aggregates","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down \u03b1-Synuclein Aggregates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-down-ceb1-synuclein-aggregates.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, we want to point out a new <a href=\"https:\/\/stm.sciencemag.org\/content\/11\/495\/eaau6722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publication<\/a> that recently appeared in the Science Translational Medicine journal, as its authors have discovered a new mechanism by which the brain protects itself from the harmful \u03b1-synuclein protein aggregates associated with Parkinson\u2019s and that may open the door to new therapies against these conditions.<\/p>\n<p>To understand where these harmful protein aggregates come from, we should take a look at how proteins are created and what goes wrong during the process of proteostasis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/breaking-down-%ce%b1-synuclein-aggregates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we want to point out a new publication that recently appeared in the Science Translational Medicine journal, as its authors have discovered a new mechanism by which the brain protects itself from the harmful \u03b1-synuclein protein aggregates associated with Parkinson\u2019s and that may open the door to new therapies against these conditions. To understand [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92015","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\/92015","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}