ALZHEIMER'S 1 (IMAGE)

Rice University

ALZHEIMER'S 1

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A schematic shows the growth of tau oligomers implicated in Alzheimer's and Pick's diseases. Monomers of tau tend to aggregate along two channels, one leading to fibrils that form tangles and the other leading to amorphous clumps in neurons. Rice University researchers simulated the proteins in computational models to see how and where the branching happens.

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Center for Theoretical Biological Physics

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