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amyloid

Alzheimer's drugs targeting amlyoid plaque may be doomed to fail

In a study of the cause of Alzheimer's, cognitive decline tracked something other than high levels of amyloid plaques

New research shows how protein aggregates destroy muscle cells

These findings have important implications for the treatment of myofibrillar myopathies, a set of diseases that affect the muscles

The gut microbiome can hit fast forward on Alzheimer's disease progression

Male — but not female — mice had reduced amyloid beta plaques in the brain after antibiotic treatment

Diabetes is a much stranger disease than I realized

We don't really know what causes diabetes, but it involves these misshapen proteins infecting each other