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A new study highlights how Alzheimer’s disease-associated proteins differentially affect tissues in a whole organism.

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Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks ...

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Until now, scientists did not fully understand what tau protein aggregates were doing in the brain's blood vessels.To uncover the mystery, Dr. Fossati and graduate student Roberto Guzmán ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Phosphorylation enables tau protein to undergo reversible liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS), forming micrometer-sized droplets, a property not seen in ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The "mini prion" folds and stacks ...