Articles for tag: Huntington's disease, neurodegenerative diseases, plant-based proteins, protein aggregation, synthetic biology

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Plant-Based Proteins: A New Frontier in Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

April Joy Jovita

Neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s disease pose significant challenges to modern medicine. Recent research has uncovered a promising avenue for treatment: plant-based proteins. Scientists have demonstrated how proteins derived from plants can prevent harmful protein aggregation, offering hope for innovative therapies to combat these debilitating conditions. The Role of Protein Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurodegenerative diseases ...

Plant-Based Meats Are Getting Smarter and More Convincing

These Future Foods Could Replace Meat Entirely

Gargi Chakravorty

The way we think about protein is about to change forever. Picture walking into a grocery store in a few years and finding perfectly marbled steaks that never came from a farm, or protein-packed energy bars made from ingredients that would make most people squirm. This isn’t science fiction anymore. Plant-based meat analogues, edible insects, ...