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Nature Medicine 13, 770 - 771 (2007)
Published online: 29 June 2007 | doi:10.1038/nm0707-770

Second chance

Erika Check1

  1. Erika Check covers biomedical research for Nature from San Francisco.


A California company is reviving a once abandoned treatment for Parkinson's disease. Erika Check assesses its odds of success.


Three years ago, Parkinson's disease research seemed on the verge of a breakthrough.California-based Amgen was delivering a protein directly into the brains of 34 people with the disease.

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