From combating cancer and infections to storing energy, lipid-protein interactions are critical to biological processes in ...

Protein aggregation is typical of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. A research team has now used new in vitro and ...

A lipid anchor on nerve cell membranes stabilizes prion proteins (PrPC) and prevents their pathological aggregation into forms linked to prion diseases.

On Tuesday 21 st of January, Prof. Giovanni D’ANGELO, Laboratory of Lipid Cell Biology, EPFL, Lausanne, invited by Prof. Charna DIBNER will give a lecture entitled "The lipotype hypothesis". His ...

Protein aggregation is typical of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases such as ...

Protein aggregation is typical of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and prion diseases such ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum discovered that a lipid anchor on nerve cell membranes stabilizes prion protein folding ...