Scientists have finally pinned down a protein that’s largely responsible for Parkinson’s disease. Known as PINK1, the protein has been linked to the disease for decades but its structure and how to switch it back on have remained elusive – until now.

Scientists have finally pinned down a protein that’s largely responsible for Parkinson’s disease. Known as PINK1, the protein has been linked to the disease for decades but its structure and how to switch it back on have remained elusive – until now.

  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Like it or not, we have neural nets to thank for this, apparently protein stuff is taking off because of it

    • EcholynxEnglish
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Neural networks themselves are not an unqualified evil. Especially in the realm of protein modeling, they’ve been a godsend.