{"id":245670,"date":"2026-10-19T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nanoscale-tech-tracks-proteins-inside-living-neurons-to-guide-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-drug-discovery"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:57:37","slug":"nanoscale-tech-tracks-proteins-inside-living-neurons-to-guide-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-drug-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nanoscale-tech-tracks-proteins-inside-living-neurons-to-guide-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-drug-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Nanoscale tech tracks proteins inside living neurons to guide Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s drug discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoscale-tech-tracks-proteins-inside-living-neurons-to-guide-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-drug-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A technology developed at The University of Queensland allowing scientists to observe how disease-related proteins behave inside living neurons will be used to advance early drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. The NASTIC (Nanoscale Spatiotemporal Indexing Clustering) platform, spun out into Brisbane-based startup Accretion Bio, enables researchers to study real-time biological processes in living cells across space and time at the single-molecule level for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The platform is the result of more than two decades of research at UQ\u2019s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), led by professor Frederic Meunier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technology developed at The University of Queensland allowing scientists to observe how disease-related proteins behave inside living neurons will be used to advance early drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. The NASTIC (Nanoscale Spatiotemporal Indexing Clustering) platform, spun out into Brisbane-based startup Accretion Bio, enables researchers to study real-time biological processes in living cells across [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245670","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\/245670","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}