{"id":136706,"date":"2022-03-11T02:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/a-common-link-between-several-neurodegenerative-diseases-might-finally-be-identified"},"modified":"2022-03-11T02:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:04:24","slug":"a-common-link-between-several-neurodegenerative-diseases-might-finally-be-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/a-common-link-between-several-neurodegenerative-diseases-might-finally-be-identified","title":{"rendered":"A Common Link Between Several Neurodegenerative Diseases Might Finally Be Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-common-link-between-several-neurodegenerative-diseases-might-finally-be-identified3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a hallmark of incurable neurodegenerative diseases \u2013 misfolded proteins that clump together to form sticky plaques or tangles called fibrils.<\/p>\n<p>Now, new research has discovered that a protein normally tasked with clearing cells of molecular debris might be a common feature of a cluster of common and rare neurodegenerative diseases, including two distinct forms of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The finding was \u201cboth unexpected and surprising\u201d and \u201craises many intriguing questions\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2022.02.026\">according<\/a> to the team behind the study, who made 3D-reconstructions of a twisted protein they found in \u201ccopious amounts\u201d in some brain tissue samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a hallmark of incurable neurodegenerative diseases \u2013 misfolded proteins that clump together to form sticky plaques or tangles called fibrils. Now, new research has discovered that a protein normally tasked with clearing cells of molecular debris might be a common feature of a cluster of common and rare neurodegenerative diseases, including two distinct forms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}