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Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research. Their study reveals that inhibiting a specific enzyme, USP30, in a mouse model can protect dopamine-producing neurons. This finding halts the disease’s progression and opens the door to new therapeutic possibilities for the 10 million people affected by Parkinson’s worldwide.The findings have the potential to pave the way for new disease-modifying treatments for patients with Parkinson’s disease.A study published in Nature Communications by…

Illustration: ProStockStudio (Shutterstock)The AI chat bot ChatGPT can do a lot of things. It can respond to tweets, write science fiction, plan this reporter’s family Christmas, and it’s even slated to act as a lawyer in court. But can a robot provide safe and effective mental health support? A company called Koko decided to find out using the AI to help craft mental health support for about 4,000 of its users in October. Users—of Twitter, not Koko—were unhappy with the results and with the fact that the experiment took…