Accused of complicity in Alzheimer's, amyloid proteins may be getting a bad rap
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Amyloids -- clumps of misfolded proteins found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders -- are the quintessential bad boys of neurobiology. But now a pair of recent research studies sets a solid course toward rehabilitating the reputation of the proteins that form these amyloid tangles, or plaques. In the process, they appear poised to turn the field of neurobiology on its head.