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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
Researchers 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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