Liquid Crystals Find Use as Neuro-Degenerative Disease Detector (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Liquid Crystals Find Use as Neuro-Degenerative Disease Detector

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These magnified images show how untreated liquid crystals (top) respond to the human islet amyloid peptide (lower right), which forms aggregates and is involved in diabetes; and rat islet amyloid (lower left), which does not aggregate. The actual width of these panels is 280 microns, approximately the diameter of several human hairs lying side by side.

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Credit: Sadati and others, Advanced Functional Materials

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