A team that includes a RIKEN researcher has refined a lab test for measuring protein aggregate levels in samples from ...

A fluorescent micrograph of a section of brain affected by Parkinson's disease. Neuron nuclei are blue, while the protein ...

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Protein aggregation is the process by which misfolded proteins adopt a conformation that cause its polymerization into aggregates and organized fibrils. Many neurodegenerative diseases ...

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) do not attain a stable secondary or tertiary structure and rapidly change their ...

The fragments also directly compromise synapses they encounter along the way, according to a preprint posted February 24 on bioRxiv. Specifically, tau fragments containing the microtubule binding ...

State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China State Key ...

After carrying out tests on the Turin Shroud, scientists have determined that the cloth is close to 2,000 years old, making ...

It is only present on the very outermost fibrils of the linen - a depth of just one five-thousandth of a millimeter - meaning that no fluid, gas, or manual process could have created it.

Transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis is a life-threatening, gain-of-toxic-function disease characterised by extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils composed of transthyretin (TTR). TTR protein ...

Amyloid formation is involved in widespread health conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and type-2 diabetes. Amyloid fibrils have a similar cross-β architecture, but fibrils ...