ProteoTech Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
While researches continue to debate the molecular causes of Alzheimer's disease, they do agree that pathological deposits of the beta-amyloid protein are responsible for some of the disease's destructive effects. Researchers at the University of Washington believe they have found a novel aproach that interferes with the harmful formation of amyloid deposits, and have founded ProteoTech Inc. to develop proteoglycan technologies.
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