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Dmitry Kurouski, Ph.D., standing, and research assistant Kiryl Zhaliazka, conducted a study linking cholesterol to Alzheimer’s disease. (Photo courtesy of Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics)

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Thu, 03/09/2023 - 4:00am

Cholesterol tremendously increases the toxicity of a peptide implicated in Alzheimer’s progression, according to research by scientists in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.The study, “Lipids uniquely alter the secondary structure and toxicity of amyloid beta 1-42 aggregates,” by Dmitry Kurouski,

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