Hillsdale Collegian
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30th November 2017
Untangling the proteins in Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease that results from the death of dopamine-releasing neurons in the brain, affects more than 10 million people worldwide, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation. Although the disease includes a variety of symptoms, patients often experience shaking or tremors, slowness of movement, or trouble balancing.
For the past two summers, senior Taylor Zimmer worked as a research intern at Van Andel Research Institute, working with a specific protein