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Scientists Thought Parkinson's Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water


For decades, Parkinson's disease research has overwhelmingly focused on genetics -- more than half of all research dollars in the past two decades flowed toward genomic studies -- but a growing body of evidence now points to something far more mundane as a primary culprit: contaminated drinking wate...

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