petersburg medical university.oreign specialists as a basis, and then, through various compounds , found a molecule that could help create a drug for people with this serious disease. and dmitry akimov has all the details. it’s too early to say that scientists have invented a pill for parkinson’s disease, it will appear in pharmacies very soon, but progress in this direction is really... very serious. scientists from st. petersburg have completed tests and have so far patented only one molecule that can completely change the lives of millions of elderly people. in russia alone , more than 250 thousand people now suffer from parkinson’s disease. our molecule, it has a targeted effect, it will affect a certain enzyme, the work of which is disrupted in parkinson's disease, associated with certain mutations in this gene. in 1963, a nuclear war practically broke out between russia, between the ussr and the usa; if it had happened, i would not have seen the light of day. 8 years later, then in 1981, in 1991, the cold war