Potential new treatment to stop Alzheimer's disease: Molecular 'tweezers' break up toxic aggregations of proteins in mouse model

Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

Using a specific biological compound they call molecular "tweezers," researchers report that, for the first time in a living mouse model for Alzheimer's (AD), the compound cleared the existing amyloid ² and Tau aggregates, and proved protective to the neuron's synapses, another target common to AD.

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