Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have demonstrated for the first time that the protein midkine plays a preventative role in Alzheimer’s disease. Midkine is known to accumulate in Alzheimer’s patients, but rather than accelerate the disease, it seems to prevents a second, sticky protein from clumping together—the chief hallmark in this form of […] The post Tiny Protein Confirmed to Dismantle the Toxic Clumps Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease appeared first on Good News Network.