Shedding new light on protein aggregates and the diseases they cause
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 - 15:43
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have developed a system capable of quickly screening millions of yeast cells to measure protein aggregates. Proteins regulate all of the processes that keep cells alive, but when misfolded they can clump into large aggregations, a phenomenon associated with diseases including Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's.