Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes: Hope for inhibitors against amyloid plaques
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
Effective therapeutics to counteract the formation of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes are not yet available. Scientists have now come a little bit closer to a solution: They have described a new class of designed macrocyclic peptides that are highly potent inhibitors of amyloid formation.