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Structure of Tau Protein’s Fuzzy Coat Revealed for the First Time

MIT chemists used NMR spectroscopy to reveal the disordered “fuzzy coat” surrounding Tau protein fibrils, offering new ...

Chemists determine structure of fuzzy coat that surrounds tau proteins

One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the clumping of proteins called Tau, which form tangled fibrils in the brain.
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When researchers don’t have the proteins they need, they can get AI to ‘hallucinate’ new structures

Ivan Anishchenko receives funding from NSF (grant DBI 1937533) and NIAID (Federal Contract HHSN272201700059C). This process of de novo protein design can be difficult to get right. Protein engineers ...
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Fossilized dinosaur eggshells can preserve amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, over millions of years

This research was supported by the University of Bristol Bob Savage Memorial Fund and the Leverhulme Trust (PLP-2012-116). As a scientist, lab work can sometimes get monotonous. But in 2017, while a ...