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The fruit fly is turning out to be a valuable model of human neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson9s disease (PD) and a useful tool for screening potential therapeutics for treating these illnesses. In his Perspective, Helfand discusses a new fly model of PD in which the loss of dopaminergic neurons is prevented by expression of chaperone proteins ( Auluck et al .).
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