Scientists Isolate a Toxic Key to Alzheimer's
Monday, June 23, 2008 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have long questioned whether the abundant amounts of amyloid plaques found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's actually caused the neurological disease or were a by-product of its progress. Now, using new research techniques, scientists have shown that a two-molecule aggregate (or dimer) of beta-amyloid protein fragments may play a role in initiating the disease. read more