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Every cell originates from another cell, with these words the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow gave the foundation of cellular pathology.

In 2018, the World Health Organization confirmed that cancer was responsible for 9.6 million deaths worldwide, and data also indicate that despite the availability of various drugs, their efficacy requires further improvement with a focus on the complexity of cancer.

The 14-kDa protein α-synuclein is closely associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and other synucleinopathies such as multiple system atrophy, and even certain forms of Alzheimer's disease. Deciphering the biochemistry of αS in native systems is key to developing therapeutics.

Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurological disorder and the fastest growing neurological disease in numerical terms, affecting approximately 1% of people over the age of 60 in high-income countries.