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Sea Elegance: A New Approach to Understanding Parkinson's Disease
Scientists use computer programs to search for genes that are shared between humans and worms and yeast. If a human gene is found in Parkinson's patient, we can take that gene and create a readout. The beautiful thing about yeast and worms is they're pretty cheap to work with. We can screen through thousands of animals and hundreds of animals very rapidly.