Dr Christopher Kesten

Researcher, ETH Zurich

Sciences & Technology

What plant proteins can tell us about Alzheimer’s

Plant biologists have described how a protein called CC1 helps plants to grow under salt stress and, intriguingly, it shares features with a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease

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