Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

Drug discovery: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's spurred by same enzyme: AEP protease acts on amyloid, tau and now alpha-synuclein www.sciencedaily.com Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are different. But at the biochemical level, these two neurodegenerative diseases start to look similar. This is how Emory scientists landed on a potential drug target for Parkinson's.