Amyloid plaques and tangles of protein in the brain are two of the key signs of the form of dementia known as Alzheimer’s disease. In new work reported in the journal PLOS One, researchers tracked the spread of tangles of tau protein from neuron to neuron in the brains of mice. Study co-author Karen Duff of the Columbia University Medical Center discusses the findings.
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Karen Duff
Karen Duff is a Professor in the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University Medical Center. She’s based in New York, New York.