Alzheimer’s disease is a ‘double-prion disorder’

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AB42 cells infected with amyloid beta prions. Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions — misshapen proteins that spread through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape — according to new UC San Francisco research. Using novel […]

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