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Corpus callosum, left-right connections, in a Parkinson's brain

Slow-moving shell of water can make Parkinson’s proteins ‘stickier’

15 Nov 2022

Water – which makes up the majority of every cell in the body – plays a key role in how proteins, including those associated with Parkinson’s disease...

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First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds

25 May 2022

Scientists settle debate surrounding 'Thunder bird' species, and whether its eggs were exploited by early Australian people around 50,000 years ago.

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Beta-Amyloid Plaques and Tau in the Brain

Following the hops of disordered proteins could lead to future treatments of Alzheimer’s disease

14 Jan 2021

Study shows how to determine the elusive motions of proteins that remain disordered.

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Inducing lysosome motion with light leads to a rapid and significant extension of ER network.

Driving force behind cellular ‘protein factories’ could have implications for neurodegenerative disease

16 Dec 2020

Researchers have identified the driving force behind a cellular process linked to neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and motor neurone...

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Women in STEM: Professor Laura Itzhaki

23 Jan 2020

Professor Laura Itzhaki is a group leader in the Department of Pharmacology and a Fellow of Newnham College. Here, she tells us about forming her own...

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Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk

02 Dec 2019

Proteins in our blood could in future help provide a comprehensive ‘liquid health check’, assessing our health and predicting the likelihood that we...

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Dr Samuel Cohen, Entrepreneur in Residence at St John's and CEO of Wren Therapeutics

Cambridge spin-out company wins £18m to fight Alzheimer's

24 Jan 2019

Wren Therapeutics secures £18 million in funding to tackle protein misfolding diseases.

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Brain showing hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (plaques in blue)

New imaging technique measures toxicity of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

23 Nov 2016

A new super-resolution imaging technique allows researchers to track how surface changes in proteins are related to neurodegenerative diseases such...

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Interacting proteins

Algorithm for predicting protein pairings could help show how living systems work

20 Sep 2016

An algorithm which models how proteins inside cells interact with each other will enhance the study of biology, and sheds light on how proteins work...

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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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The periodic table of proteins

The periodic table of proteins

10 Dec 2015

Researchers have devised a periodic table of protein complexes, making it easier to visualise, understand and predict how proteins combine to drive...

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Jello Cubes

Breaking the mould: Untangling the jelly-like properties of diseased proteins

29 Oct 2015

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a new property of essential proteins which, when it malfunctions, can cause the build up...

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