Sentences with phrase «form inside brain cells»

Not only did the normal mice develop plaques, but also a pathology similar to «tangles» — twisted protein strands that form inside brain cells, disrupting their function and eventually killing them from the inside - out.

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Previous research has suggested that in all three diseases, proteins that are folded abnormally form clumps inside brain cells.

A protein that can switch shapes and accumulate inside brain cells helps fruit flies form and retrieve memories, a new study finds.

Once inside brain cells, some of it gets converted to an inorganic form that sticks to and disables many structural proteins and enzymes essential to cell function.

But when you analyze your brain, you will find inside it a set of nerve cells that form a large complex: one that can distinguish among a large repertoire of states in a way that its parts can not; and one that does so maximally, more than any other set of nerve cells, more than the entire body, than any crowd of men, than the world itself.»

The students had worked with 3 - D printers and thought they could be the key to producing a better bioreactor, one that would fit over commonly used 12 - well laboratory plates and spin the liquid and cells inside at just the right speed to allow the cells to form brains.

In patients with certain neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, a protein called tau forms stringy blobs known as «tangles» inside brain cells.