protein

A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads...

Excess quantities of a specific protein in the brain dramatically increase the chances of so-called “nucleation events” that could eventually result...

A new technique developed at the University of Cambridge allows researchers to identify clusters of proteins on immune cells which are key to...

Conditions which may accelerate the spread of Parkinson’s disease, and a potential means of enhancing naturally-occurring defences against...

Researchers have shown that tiny quantities of the protein tau can be enough to kick-start an aggregation process which may explain the onset of...

Researchers believe the gene could be a useful therapeutic target for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes

Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm.

The discovery by scientists in Cambridge and Alberta of a fifth adaptor protein – a tiny and vital component of many cells –will lay the foundations...