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Nanotubes - Institut Pasteur
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2019.11.07
Research
Parkinson's: new discoveries about nanotubes, transporters of toxic proteins
We now know that neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the aggregation of "misfolded" proteins in the brain. These proteins, which are toxic for neurons,...
Parkinsontunneling nanotubesTNTs
institut pasteur
News
2019.07.11
Research
A fast likelihood method to reconstruct and visualize ancestral scenarios
The Institut Pasteur is at the forefront of computational biology research. Scientists in the Evolutionary Bioinformatics Unit (part of Institut Pasteur and...
Computational biologyphylogenetic trees
News
2019.01.30
Research
When the structure of Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) challenges the very concept of cell
Cells in our bodies have the ability to speak with one another much like humans do. This communication allows organs in our bodies to work synchronously, which...
cellulenanotube
News
2016.08.22
Neurologie
Tunneling nanotubes between neurons enable the spread of Parkinson's disease via lysosomes
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have demonstrated the role of lysosomal vesicles in transporting α-synuclein aggregates, responsible for Parkinson's and...
Parkinson
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