CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: THE RED CANCER CELL USES THE WHITE PROTEIN MEMO1 TO BIND THE GREEN COPPER IONS. CREDIT: YEN STRANDQVIST, CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY For cancer cells to grow and spread around the human body, they need proteins that bind copper ions. New research about how cancer-related proteins bind the metal and...
by Rainer Klose, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Images taken with an atomic force microscope show alpha-synuclein in the form of fibrils (left). When the protein is placed in a solution containing copper, ring-like structures form instead (right). Credit: Empa Copper exposure in the environment and the protein alpha-synuclein in the human brain...
University of Houston researcher examines the link UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON A University of Houston chemist is exploring the link between copper protein molecules in brain cells and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. “Scientists have studied Alzheimer’s disease for 100 years and still no one knows the cause,” said assistant professor of chemistry Tai-Yen Chen, who will...
