Destructive Relief. In the proposed strain relief mechanism, left-twisted tau fibrils bind D-peptides, which initially adopt ...

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A new imaging technique developed by engineers at Washington University in St. Louis can give scientists a much closer look ...

A new imaging technique developed by engineers at Washington University in St. Louis can give scientists a much closer look at fibril assemblies, stacks of peptides like amyloid beta, most notably ...

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Gregory Petsko of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston had a different interpretation. Since tau is not an integral membrane protein, he thinks that SORL1 must meet tau at the cell surface where the ...

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