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New NIH grant supports single molecule study of protein key to Alzheimer ‘s disease – EurekAlert
Grant supported research will produce fine-grained data on an interaction in which a key Alzheimer’s protein is created.
IMAGE: The peptide AB-42 forms in clumps in the brain and is a key pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
TROY, N.Y. — A new grant from the National Institute On Aging at the National Institutes of Health will support ongoing research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to address Alzheimer’s disease caused by gene mutations. According to Chunyu Wang, the principal investigator and an assistant professor of biological sciences at Rensselaer, the project…
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