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Gene therapy boosts Parkinson’s disease drug benefits

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Within this brief article, researchers at Northwestern University express confidence that they've found the cause of PD, and that this will allow research to move forward with more focus.

“It has long been debated whether mitochondrial damage is the cause or the consequence of the disease. Now that this issue has been resolved, we should focus on developing treatments that maintain function and delay the loss of these neurons.”

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is gene therapy available?

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This post is mistitled. Actual research here:

nature.com/articles/s41586-...

They showed in a mouse model that damaging mitochondria results in Parkinson's symptoms.

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