neurodegenerative dieseases

The p97 protein is one of your body’s best garbage disposers. It floats around in your cells looking for signals that a protein is past its shelf life and needs to be trashed.

Our brains and spinal cords conduct messages similarly to how electricity travels from circuit to light.

Take a cell-deep tour of a brain afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, and you will find minuscule clumps of protein that seem suspicious.