A Wrong Molecular Turn For Amyloid Fibrils Leads Down The Road To Type 2 Diabetes

Determining how proteins misfold to create the tissue-damaging structures that lead to type 2 diabetes is complicated. These amyloid fibrils are also implicated in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and in prion diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jacob and mad cow disease.    read more

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