From nano to macro: the latest molecular insights into the causes of Dementia - the greatest threat to modern healthcare
Duration: 1 hour 3 mins
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| Description: | Join Tuomas Knowles, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, to hear how Cambridge is working to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying dementia, the greatest threat to modern healthcare, and how to counteract them. |
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| Created: | 2018-10-25 13:54 |
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| Collection: | Alumni Festival 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Isabel Ronaldson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Explicit content: | No |
| Abstract: | The devastating effects of dementia are triggered at the nano-scale by misfolding, misbehaving and aggregating proteins. Tuomas Knowles and colleagues at Cambridge are developing new tools to be able to probe this process and are working to understand at a fundamental level the molecular mechanisms underlying dementia and to develop effective ways to counteract them. |
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