How small molecule can take apart Alzheimer's disease protein fibers
Date: 18.5.2008
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown, in unprecedented detail, how a **small molecule** is able to selectively take apart abnormally folded protein fibers connected to **Alzheimer's disease** and **prion diseases**. The findings appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Finding a way to dismantle misfolded proteins has implications for new treatments for a host of neurodegenerative diseases.
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