A four-ingredient, small-molecule cocktail was seen to protect stem cells from the stresses of lab work better than existing agents, helping to preserve their normal structure and function, researchers reported. This cocktail may overcome the “daunting challenge” of keeping pluripotent stem cells viable, so to be more useful in research into stem…
Parkinson’s disease does not appear to make a person more susceptible to infection with the COVID-19-causing virus, or at risk of poorer outcomes, according to a study in a small hospitalized patient group in Italy when the pandemic struck. The observational study, “The impact of SARS-COV2 infection on…
Men who experience sleepwalking — alone or in combination with another sleep disorder called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder — are at least four times more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than those who do not. That finding, which comes from a study of more than 25,000…
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