In the pursuit of dangerous clumps: Customized surfaces help reveal the causes of diseases
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 04:30
in Health & Medicine
When normal proteins form protein clumps in the body, then alarm bells start ringing. Such clumps, called "amyloids," are closely associated with Alzheimer's disease and Type 2 diabetes. If doctors knew how these proteins form clumps, then they might be able to treat such diseases more efficiently. Researchers in Germany and Denmark have now succeeded in taking a major step in that direction.