Animal cells harbor three types of cytoskeletal elements: actin filaments, intermediate filaments and microtubules. Despite their name, cytoskeletons are very dynamic structures, which undergo rapid ...

The symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal dementia, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) are different, but they have one feature in common: the presence of ...

Akin to erratic teenagers, tau may try dozens of amyloid filament styles before settling into the stable configurations found in the brains of people with AD or other tauopathies. This is according to ...