Alzheimer's-related protein disrupts motors of cell transport

Monday, May 2, 2011 - 10:20 in Biology & Nature

A protein associated with Alzheimer's disease clogs several motors of the cell transport machinery critical for normal cell division, leading to defective neurons that may contribute to the memory-robbing disease, University of South Florida researchers report.

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