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Breakthrough in alpha-synuclein research!

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Yesterday saw big news in alpha-synuclein research: a team of scientists at Harvard Medical School have discovered that the natural state for the protein alpha-synuclein in healthy cells is not a monomer but a tetramer. Read more about this on the "parent site": parkinsonsmovement.com/2011.... You can also comment and ask questions there.

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