Prof. Liu Cong from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, ...

Amyloid fibrils appear in many neurodegenerative diseases, and scientists are eager to understand how they form and spread. But amyloids—clumped aggregations of misfolded proteins—can be difficult to ...

After studying 140,000 versions of the Aβ42 peptide, scientists identified some of the earliest molecular interactions that drive the formation of harmful amyloid protein aggregates found in Alzheimer ...

Scientists believe amyloid protein plays a role in Alzheimer’s but are still trying to explain how. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, which is characterized by memory loss and dementia, is ...

In Alzheimer's disease, proteins like amyloid beta form clumps, known as plaques, that damage the brain. But in some people, immune cells called microglia break down these proteins before they can ...

A protein notorious for its role in Alzheimer’s disease may hold the key to supercharging the aging immune system, according to new research. Scientists have found that a byproduct of amyloid-beta ...

A recent study led by a team of researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine examining aging mice has provided what is believed to be the first evidence that amyloid beta ...