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Conceptual image showing blurred brain with loss of neuronal networks

Scientists reveal plan to target the cause of Alzheimer’s disease

24 Sep 2018

Researchers have developed a new way to target the toxic particles that destroy healthy brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease.

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Image of “amyloid fibrils”; thread-like structures which form after the protein alpha-synuclein aggregates. Plaques (protein deposits) consisting of this protein have been found in the brains of Parkinson ’s Disease patients and linked to disease.

Tiny changes in Parkinson’s protein can have “dramatic” impact on processes that lead to the disease

30 Aug 2016

Specific mutations in the protein associated with Parkinson’s Disease, in which just one of its 140 building blocks is altered, can make a dramatic...

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