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In biology, seeing can lead to understanding, and researchers in Professor Edward Boyden's lab at the McGovern Institute for ...

Researchers found that peristaltic pump flow mechanically breaks supersaturation to induce amyloid formation by hen egg white lysozyme, a-synuclein, amyloid b 1-40, and b2-microglobulin. The high ...

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Peristaltic pump-induced amyloid formation of proteins. (a) hen egg white lysozyme, (B) α-synuclein, (C) Aβ, and (D) β2microglobulin. Osaka, Japan – The factor that tips you over the edge ...

This process involves the formation of amyloid fibrils, crystal-like collections of misfolded proteins that clump together ...

When people have Alzheimer’s disease, their brains slowly accumulate abnormal clumps of two proteins: amyloid and tau. At some point, researchers believe, those protein clumps start wreaking ...

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