Drug Homing Method Could Offer New Insights into Parkinson’s
Aug 11, 2020
The most complex and least-understood organ in the body is the brain and it is made up of many specialized areas that work together. Now modern methods, such as pharmacology and gene editing, can show how certain drugs and genes affect the cells in specific regions of the brain.
Causes of neuropsychiatric disorders
A researcher, Michael Tadross, MD, PhD, has developed a method to ensure that any drug injected into an area of the brain will only affect the targeted cell type. The researcher genetically modified a cell type of interest so that the special receptor protein known as the HaloTag is expressed at the cell membrane. Besides, the drug of interest is modified so that it can be chained with the molecule…
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