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This could be massive.

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Novel ‘Chimera’ drug targets the ‘undruggable’ Parkinson’s protein

newatlas.com/medical/chimer...

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Sounds like the article is describing a study that is in vitro, altho it doesn't say explicitly. (If the study were done in humans, I would think they would say so.)

"In studies from induced neurons of Parkinson’s patients, we see the Syn-RiboTAC strategy reduces alpha-synuclein..."

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eschneid in reply to MBAnderson

Nice find, Marc

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docjleonard55

Sounds promising. Too bad the testing is not far advanced. It won't be available for many years.

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jeffreyn

Some background information in this 2020 SoPD blog post from Simon.

scienceofparkinsons.com/202...

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CuriousMe12 in reply to jeffreyn

That's good background

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