A new study led by Rice University's Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede has revealed that protein clumps, or plaques that clog the brain, associated with Parkinson's disease are not merely waste; they can ...

What if the very structures we thought were destroying the brain are actually trying to save it? A new study reveals that protein clumps, long considered toxic markers of diseases like Huntington's, ...

A new study from Aarhus University shows that our cells' ability to clean out old protein clumps, known as aggregates, also includes a—up till now unknown—partnership with an engine that breaks down ...

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is a professor and the Charles W. Duncan Jr.-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Scholar. A new study led by Rice University’s ...