Flies Model a Potential Sweet Treatment for Parkinson's disease

Saturday, April 6, 2013 - 08:50 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from Tel Aviv University describe experiments that could lead to a new approach for treating Parkinson's disease using a common sweetener, mannitol. This research is presented April 6 at the Genetics Society of America's 54th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Washington D.C., April 3-7, 2013.

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