Alzheimer’s disease—also called dementia—where memory and cognitive functions gradually decline due to deformation and death of neurons, and Parkinson’s disease, that causes tremors in hands and arms impeding normal movement—are major neurodegenerative diseases. Recently, a research team at POSTECH has identified the structure of the agent that causes Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases to occur together.
A research team led by Professor Joon Won Park and Ph.D. candidate Eun Ji Shin of the Department of Chemistry at POSTECH investigated the surface structure of hetero-oligomers found in the…
