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Engineering enzymes with potential against ALS and Parkinson's disease
- June 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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In an advance that could one day lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, Meredith Jackrel, an associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and her team have developed a method to rapidly produce and screen a class of disaggregase enzymes that can break down the misfolded proteins associated with ALS and Parkinson's disease.
Originally published at Phys.org