Scientists believe lasers could help cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

Lasers could prove to be the key in eliminating brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. New findings from researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the Polish Wroclaw University of Technology have raised hopes that doctors may one day be able to cure the ailments without needing to touch surrounding brain tissue. "We have found a totally new way of discovering these structures using just laser light" says Piotr Hanczyc of Chalmers University of Technology. To that end, the researchers seem hopeful that photoacoustic therapy could be used to get rid of the protein aggregates.

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