Calculating Gene And Protein Connections In A Parkinson's Disease Model
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009News source:
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A novel approach to analyzing cellular data is yielding new understanding of Parkinson's disease's destructive pathways.Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have employed this new computational technique to analyze alpha-synuclein, a mysterious protein that is associated with Parkinson's disease.
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