An error in protein conformation can lead to disease. What are the genetic and molecular causes for incorrectly formed proteins? molecules. In 1917 the German chemist ...
From the story behind the name of Yumanity Therapeutics to the science of protein misfolding, former Onyx Pharmaceuticals CEO Tony Coles talks about his new venture. Over the past five years or so, ...
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paradox Immunotherapeutics (“Paradox”), a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative antibody therapies that treat protein misfolding diseases, today ...
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University researchers have described with single-molecule precision how copper ions cause prion proteins to misfold and seed the misfolding and clumping of nearby prion ...
A spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD) are due to the accumulation of abnormal, ...
The first synthetic fragment of tau protein has been created, revealing more about the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Researchers at Northwestern University (IL, USA) and the ...
"Science is teamwork. Lone wolves no longer exist," Peter Walter, researcher and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and former president of the American Society for Biochemistry ...
New computer simulations that model every atom of a protein as it folds into its final three-dimensional form support the existence of a recently identified type of protein misfolding. Proteins must ...
Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks ...
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paradox Immunotherapeutics (“Paradox”), a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative antibody therapies that treat rare protein misfolding diseases, ...
Researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a technology that rapidly converts stem cells to brain cells with protein structures characteristic of Parkinson’s disease (PD), helping ...