A drug that treats Parkinson’s disease might also work against multiple sclerosis, or MS.
In MS patients, an aberrant immune onslaught degrades the fatty myelin sheaths that coat nerve fibers, causing blurred vision, weakness, loss of coordination and other symptoms.
Luke Lairson of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.,
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