Another potential advance for women's health is underway in Padbury's COBRE for Perinatal Biology, where Surendra Sharma, professor (research) of pathology and laboratory medicine, and the research team have helped to identify an apparent role for clumps of misfolded proteins in the disease preeclampsia. (news.brown.edu)
A compound in beets that gives the vegetable its distinctive red color could eventually help slow the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain, a process that is associated with Alzheimer's disease. (sciencedaily.com)
Remarkably, mice raised in the germ - free cages displayed fewer motor deficits and reducedaccumulation of misfolded protein aggregates in brain regions involved in controlling movement. (sciencedaily.com)