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Drug treatment targets mutant proteins to stop neurodegenerative diseases

  • Written by Albert La Spada, Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Cell Biology, Duke University
Drug treatment targets mutant proteins to stop neurodegenerative diseasesResearchers are developing treatments for blindness caused by neurodegeneration.Alexandra Lande / Shutterstock.com

Designer therapies are treatments tailored to a specific disease, and nowhere is the need greater for new therapies than in a group of nervous system disorders, known as “neurodegenerative diseases.”

Many of these diseases...

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