Function found for Alzheimer's protein

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 15:21 in Biology & Nature

In people with Alzheimer's, the brain becomes riddled with clumps of protein, forming what are known as amyloid plaques. Now, new research appears to have found a function for the amyloid precursor protein (APP for short) that yields the prime ingredient in those plaques.

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