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Great story.

I wonder how many of the young kids currently crying in the arms of their Syrian parents and hoping to survive political games, voyage across deadly waters and, kicks and blows in foreign lands, would be future graduates of Harvard, if given the opportunity.

Thank you. Great answer!

I vaguely remember from my academia days that there was another protein of immense interest that led to centrosomal aggregation of proteins - a precusor to Alzhemier and it was called something like - alpha-synuclein. Is that a subset of amyloid family ? or different ?

Very interesting - thank you for sharing.

Summary for others:

Protein misfolding and aggregation inside the cell was known to contribute to Alzheimers. This article points to the possibility of misfolded and aggregated proteins of Alzheimer patients triggering (or seeding) misfolding and aggregation of otherwise 'healthy' proteins in non-alzheimer patients. Much like the mad cow disease.