Toxic alpha-synuclein protein seen to alter energy use in nerve cells

Toxic clumps of the protein alpha-synuclein change the way the brain cells most affected by Parkinson’s disease utilize energy, a study shows. Its researchers wanted a clearer understanding of how “key metabolic processes” are affected by the protein’s aggregation, damaging “vulnerable” nerve cells within the brain, they wrote. To…

Fox Foundation Grant to Help Advance CNM-Au8 to Planned Phase 2 Trial

A grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) will help Clene Nanomedicine to advance in development CNM-Au8, its cellular energy-promoting, investigational Parkinson’s treatment. The grant will help to support preclinical studies in patients’ nerve cells and mouse models of the disease, as well as facilitate the launch of a Phase 2 safety and effectiveness…