Skin Cream Could Curb Parkinson’s Disease, Study Reveals

A study conducted at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has found that the drug kinetin, an over-the-counter skin cream that prevents wrinkles, also slows or stops the effect of Parkinson’s disease on brain cells. “What we have here is a case where the molecular target has been shown to be important to Parkinson’s in human genetic studies,” says an investigator. “And now we have a drug that specifically acts on this target and reverses the cellular causes of the disease.” Click here to read the full story.