Yeast model connects Alzheimer's disease risk and amyloid beta toxicity

Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

In a development that sheds new light on the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a team of scientists has identified connections between genetic risk factors for the disease and the effects of a peptide toxic to nerve cells in the brains of AD patients.

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