A protein linked to accumulation of harmful brain plaque in Alzheimer’s patients has been shown in fruit flies and mice to be an important part of a molecular transportation system that moves signals ...

Neurons depend heavily on efficient intracellular transport, perhaps more than any other type of cell. Two papers in Neuron provide evidence that proteins with expanded glutamine repeats, such as ...

Schematic representation of axonal transport vesicles (blue) carrying presynaptic proteins (SV and AZ proteins). Kinesin motor proteins (KIF1A) attach these vesicles and carry them along the axons to ...