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> > Prof. Horvitz of MIT has just given a paper in Singapore at a Material > Research conference on programmed cell death (apoptosis). This is > directly relevant to PD as the theories point to apoptosis in the human > brain. Of course if the programming can be detected and possibly changed > that would be a pathway for preventing and maybe curing PD. Prof. > Horvitz has a webpage: _http://web.mit.edu/horvitz/www/horvitzlab.html > > which gives some details of some of the work mostly on a model > organism and the parallels to the human system. Interestingly it is > found that apoptosis is needed for normal development and that excessive > apoptosis is responsible for Neurological diseases and insufficient cell > death is a manifestation in Cancer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn