Research on cell biology mystery may reveal root causes of Alzheimer's and other diseases
Friday, October 31, 2014 - 06:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —In the 1980s, professor Leonard Rome and his then-postdoctoral fellow Nancy Kedersha made a breakthrough in cell biology when they discovered vaults, naturally occurring nanoparticles—of a size measured in nanometers (1 nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter)—that are composed mostly of proteins and number in the thousands inside every cell of the body.