
HansDenIslander
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For decades, scientists believed protein clumps in the brain were toxic byproducts killing neurons in diseases like Huntington's, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's. Israeli researchers just flipped that assumption upside down. Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists discovered these clumps may actually be a protective "quarantine system" - the brain's way of isolating harmful proteins before they damage the rest of the cell. In stress tests, neurons with the clumps survived at far higher rates than those without them. "The prevailing view was that we need to fight those protein clusters," said lead researcher Professor Eran Meshorer. "But we showed they actually protect the cells from dying, at least in the short term." The findings, published in Cell Death & Differentiation, could reshape how neurodegenerative diseases are treated.












