Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting millions of people ...

New research has identified a molecular cascade that causes synaptic dysfunction that is shared by Alzheimer's and ...

Scientists designed and tested fluorescent molecules called “FibrilPaint” that bind exclusively to the long, thread-like ...

Nex-z is one of two late-stage projects on the go at Intellia, a specialist in CRISPR gene-editing co-founded by Nobel Prize ...

CNW/ - Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Biogen Canada Inc. announced today that Health ...

An antibody being developed by AstraZeneca for the treatment of light chain (AL) amyloidosis has failed to move the needle in a phase 3 trial, although the drugmaker thinks it has seen signs of ...

Uncaged Innovations is reinventing plant-based leather alternatives by starting with the very foundation of animal leather: collagen. “We asked, ‘What makes leather leather?’” says co-founder ...

This work shows the two independent structures of cardiac amyloids formed by non-native atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) dimers extracted from atrial fibrillation patients. These data point at dimeric ...

Protein folding is the process by which proteins achieve their mature functional (native) tertiary structure, and often begins co-translationally. Protein folding requires chaperones and often ...