How disordered proteins spread from cell to cell, potentially spreading disease

Saturday, February 19, 2011 - 05:40 in Health & Medicine

One bad apple is all it takes to spoil the barrel. And one misfolded protein may be all that's necessary to corrupt other proteins, forming large aggregations linked to several incurable neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's...

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