Chad Rienstra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Chad Rienstra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Led by University of Illinois professor Chad Rienstra, chemists have identified the full chemical structure of the protein that forms fibrils in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease.

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