New insight into Alzheimer's disease

In a recently published scientific paper in the respected journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition the researchers - including PhD student Trudslev Jeppe Pedersen from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Professor Lars Hemmingsen from LIFE demonstrate that metals play a significant role in how the peptides fold and aggregate. That is, how they form the precursors of plaque.

 

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For further information please contact:

Associate Professor Lars Hemmingsen, Department of Basic Sciences and Environment at LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel 35332307, mobile 22341782 or email:lhe@life.ku.dk