Steven Clarke, Rebeccah Warmack
Reed Hutchinson/UCLA
Steven Clarke and Rebeccah Warmack. They and UCLA colleagues report that beta amyloid, a small protein that plays an important role in Alzheimer’s, has a specific amino acid that can form a kink, like a kink in a garden hose, creating a harmful molecular zipper, leading to the death of neurons.
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