Tiny traps can provide new knowledge about difficult-to-treat diseases
Proteins that form clumps occur in many difficult-to-treat diseases, such as ALS, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson's. The mechanisms behind how the proteins interact with each other are difficult to study, but now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a new method for capturing many proteins in nano-sized traps. Inside these traps, the proteins can be studied in a way that has not been possible before. "We believe that our method has great potential to increase the understanding of early and dangerous processes in a number of different diseases