Amyloid fibrils experiment operating aboard International Space Station

A novel experiment aimed at studying the mechanics of amyloid fibrils—a type of protein aggregation associated with diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s—started today aboard the International Space Station (ISS), led by a team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


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Source: Phys.org