October 08, 2018
Today, we are going to be taking a look at GAIM and what it might mean for treating amyloid-based diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and amyloidosis. This approach has the potential to treat multiple age-related diseases at once by targeting a common characteristic that they all share. Misfolded proteins cause multiple age-related diseases Proteins are...
March 28, 2018
In a paper published on March 15, 2018, in the journal Science, Stanford researchers led by Dr. Dena Leeman showed that intracellular protein aggregates accumulate within the lysosomes of neural stem cells that were previously thought not to suffer from this problem [1]. Intracellular waste disposal 101 Dysfunctional proteins and organelles within a cell constitute...
