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Minute Insight: First Live Images Of Alpha-Synuclein Raise Hope For Improved Neurological Diagnostics

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

Advancements in imaging technology may bring medtech and pharma closer together and lead to better drugs for neurological conditions.

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• Source: Informa/Alamy

AC Immune, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based biotech company, has obtained the first non-invasive images of pathological alpha-synuclein in human brain tissue, which could lead to better therapies for neurodegenerative disease.

Alpha-synuclein is a soluble neuronal protein that is present under normal conditions as it regulates synaptic vesicle trafficking. Trafficking is...

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