Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the ...

Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells - using the cells' own components as built-in sensors.

Although scientists have made significant progress in understanding the disease, there’s still no cure. That’s partly because ...

Tau is an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, tau proteins were discovered to be able to catalyze self-acetylation, which may promote its pathological ...

Newborn babies and patients with Alzheimer's disease share an unexpected biological trait: elevated levels of a well-known ...

When proteins are made in a cell, they start out as strings of amino acids, which have to be folded into the correct, 3D ...

Two proteins which are widely believed to play central roles in Alzheimer's disease are amyloid-beta and tau. Amyloid-beta forms sticky plaques ... which rely on amyloid assemblies (similar in ...

Helicobacter pylori, best known for causing stomach ulcers, was shown to block the build-up of both amyloid-beta and tau in ...