A discovery led in part by University of Regina biochemist Dr. Mohan Babu is helping scientists better understand what goes wrong inside the brain cells of people living with Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's affects more than 110,000 Canadians, causing tremors, stiffness, slow movements, and challenges with balance, speech, and memory. The disease gradually erodes a person's ability to control movement and, to date, has no cure.
In a new international study recently published in Science Advances, Babu and research collaborator Dr. Ken Nakamura from the University of California, San Francisco, uncovered how a single genetic mutation can throw a cell's internal energy system into chaos -- triggering a chain reaction that resembles Parkinson's disease.
