The model enables the study of the fundamental interactions that underlie neurodegenerative disease. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara have engineered the first synthetic fragment of the tau protein that behaves like a prion, a type of misfolded protein known for its ability to propagate its abnormal shape to normal […]
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