Making ‘mini-brains’ from the stem cells of patients with childhood parkinsonism have enabled researchers to find not only the mechanism of the disease, but also that a cheap, widely available form of vitamin B can slow its progression. Presented at #eshg2026 today: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
A form of vitamin B3 known as nicotinamide mononucleotide was found to slow disease progression in patients with a rare mutation in the DHDDS gene