Inside Singapore General Hospital (Simon Roughneen)
DUBLIN A “crucial new piece of information” discovered by University of Cambridge-led researchers could mark a “vital step” towards understanding Parkinson’s disease, a debilitating neurological disorder.
A paper published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications outlined what the university says is “compelling new evidence” about a “key protein” that affects neurons in the human brain.
Giuliana Fusco, research fellow at the university’s St John’s College, said that “if we want to cure Parkinson’s, first we need to understand the function of alpha-synuclein, a protein present in everyone’s brains.”
The Ministry of Health, with an expert panel, has detected the first case of likely Covid-19 reinfection in Singapore. On February 6, the ministry said the 28-year-old male Bangladeshi national holds a work permit and resides in a dormitory at 43 Tech Park Crescent.
Singapore has detected the first case of likely Covid-19 re-infection involving a migrant worker at a dormitory, according to the republic's Ministry of Health (MOH)