PHOENIX: Researchers have now shown how chaperones stabilize an immature bacterial membrane protein and guide it in the right folding direction, thus protecting it from misfolding.

Cellular machines continuously produce long polypeptide chains, the proteins. In order to properly fulfill its cellular function, a protein Read More »

BOSTON: Despite an aging population, dementia cases may be leveling off in western Europe thanks to better education and living conditions and greater attention to vascular disease, say the authors of a new paper.

Current estimates of the number of dementia cases in western European Read More »

DALLAS: New research says people’s weight in middle age may influence not just whether they go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but when.

Obesity in midlife has long been suspected of increasing the risk of Alzheimer’s later in life. Researchers took a closer look and Read More »

DALLAS: This study aimed to identify a genetic score that could be used to indicate an individual’s biological age. Using muscle and tissue samples from young and old adults, they identified the set of genetic markers that could best differentiate between the young and old Read More »