3D Super-Resolution Imaging Gives Insight on Alzheimer's Disease
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2018-07-16

Recent studies show that 40 percent of Americans over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's disease, and that the disease begins 10 to 20 years before people show up at the doctor's office with memory problems.

One major problem with understanding Alzheimer’s is not being able to clearly see why the disease starts. A super-resolution "nanoscope" developed by Purdue University researchers now provides a 3D view of brain molecules with 10 times greater detail. This imaging technique could help reveal how the disease progresses and where new treatments could intervene. 

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Featured Researchers: 
Fang Huang, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University

Gary Landreth, Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology, IU School of Medicine

Music:  "A New Year" by Scott Buckley, via Creative Commons

This work was supported by various grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institute of Health, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, the Alzheimer's Association, the Jane and Lee Seidman Fund, the National Institute on Aging, Case Western Reserve University and generous donations from Chet and Jane Scholtz and Dave and Susan Roberts. 

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