HUBRECHT INSTITUTE IMAGE: HEART MUSCLE CELLS WITHOUT (WILDTYPE) OR WITH (MUTANT) THE NEWLY DISCOVERED MUTATION. PROTEINS THAT ARE PRESENT IN HEART MUSCLE CELLS SPECIFICALLY (GREEN), DESMOSOMAL PROTEINS (RED) AND CELL NUCLEI (BLUE) ARE VISIBLE. CREDIT: JANTINE MONSHOUWER-KLOOTS, COPYRIGHT HUBRECHT INSTITUTE Researchers from the group of Eva van Rooij in collaboration with the UMC Utrecht identified a...
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia belong to a family of neurodegenerative disorders called synucleinopathies because they are caused by the pathological accumulation of protein alpha-synuclein into structures called Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in the brain. In a healthy brain, alpha-synuclein is found in synapses as distinct proteins called...
PUBLISHED THU, JUN 24 2021 7:40 AM The “delta variant” has come to dominate headlines, having been discovered in India where it provoked an extreme surge in Covid cases before spreading around the world, with cases now rapidly rising in the U.S. But now a mutation of that variant has emerged, called “delta plus,” which...
