Scientists at Scripps Research, with collaborators in Japan, have discovered how a "poisoned" form of a protein could set off a cascade of events that encourage the growth of some cancers.
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The researchers discovered that the brains of women who had died from the condition had substantially higher amounts of complement C3, an inflammatory immune protein, than those of men who had died from the sickness.
A hint to the molecular aetiology of Alzheimer disease has been discovered by researchers at MIT and Scripps Research; this clue may also explain why women ar