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Could measuring protein clumps in our cells be a new way to find out our risk of getting age-related diseases? Professor Dorothee Dormann and Professor Edward Lemke of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), who are also adjunct directors at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, propose the concept of a “protein aggregation clock” …
Alzheimer’s disease is a relentless brain wasting disease in which toxic clusters of beta amyloid proteins collect in the brain. University of Washington research has created a synthetic peptide that can block beta amyloids in their early and most harmful stages, as published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This synthetic peptide …