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 ...
Whether sustained on the field or in the ring, repeated blows to the head result in a distinctive strain of tau filaments in the brain. In the March 20 Nature, researchers led by Sjors Scheres and ...
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 ...