A new study suggests that it is possible to design drugs that can target a type of shape-shifting protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease, which was previously thought to be undruggable.
A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, have identified a new mechanism of targeting amyloid-beta, a protein fragment that clumps together and kills healthy brain cells in people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Working with colleagues from Imperial College London, Institut Pasteur, and the University of Florence, the researchers found that it is possible for a drug-like molecule to target…
