Hybrid Molecules Show Promise for Exploring, Treating Alzheimer's
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 11:42
in Health & Medicine
One of the many mysteries of Alzheimer's disease is how protein-like snippets called amyloid-beta peptides, which clump together to form plaques in the brain, may cause cell death, leading to the disease's devastating symptoms of memory loss and other mental difficulties.
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