Can Lasers Cure Alzheimer’s Disease? (photonics.com | Nov 2013 | Research & Technology): The malfunctioning protein structures that cause diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s can be found using just laser light, a team in Sweden and Poland has discovered.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and colleagues at the Polish Wroclaw University of Technology discovered the method of distinguishing between aggregations of certain proteins, believed to cause the diseases, from well-functioning ones. When amyloid beta proteins gather in large numbers, they begin to inhibit normal cellular processes.
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