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[partypants]

Some very interesting research news from the world of protein folding research from 2 sources,

1. New Scientist - newscientist.com/article/dn...

2. NPR - npr.org/sections/health-sho...

Although the headline is mainly about alzheimers Parkinson's gets a mention too.

If you want to help with research into protein folding download some software to your home computer and let it do the rest - see folding.stanford.edu/. Our colleague dumplekin has already set up our own folding@home team called healthninjas (team number 227512).

[beauxreflets]

If folded proteins are the very cause of PD then we should all be jumping up and down with joy.

[partypants in reply to beauxreflets]

I don't think anyone knows what the cause of Parkinson's is yet but there's enough interest in these proteins for the michaeljfox foundation to invest $47 million in research in 2012... michaeljfox.org/understandi...