Apparently APP :The Scientist [2009-05-01]


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	By Elie Dolgin

Apparently APP Ten years ago, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neurobiologist then at the University of California, San Francisco, saw an image he's never forgotten. His postdoc Zhigang He (now at Harvard) showed him a picture of stained mouse embryos indicating that the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP), a known "bad actor" in Alzheimer's disease, was highly enriched in neurons and axons during