{"id":188111,"date":"2024-04-25T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nanomaterial-that-mimics-proteins-could-be-basis-for-new-neurodegenerative-disease-treatments"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:26:09","slug":"nanomaterial-that-mimics-proteins-could-be-basis-for-new-neurodegenerative-disease-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nanomaterial-that-mimics-proteins-could-be-basis-for-new-neurodegenerative-disease-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Nanomaterial that mimics proteins could be basis for new neurodegenerative disease treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanomaterial-that-mimics-proteins-could-be-basis-for-new-neurodegenerative-disease-treatments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly developed nanomaterial that mimics the behavior of proteins could be an effective tool for treating Alzheimer\u2019s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The nanomaterial alters the interaction between two key proteins in brain cells\u2014with a potentially powerful therapeutic effect.<\/p>\n<p>The innovative findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202311467\" target=\"_blank\">recently published<\/a> in the journal <i>Advanced Materials<\/i>, were made possible thanks to a collaboration between University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison scientists and nanomaterial engineers at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n<p>The work centers around altering the interaction between two proteins that are believed to be involved in setting the stage for diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly developed nanomaterial that mimics the behavior of proteins could be an effective tool for treating Alzheimer\u2019s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The nanomaterial alters the interaction between two key proteins in brain cells\u2014with a potentially powerful therapeutic effect. The innovative findings, recently published in the journal Advanced Materials, were made possible thanks to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188111","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}