Lisa Lapidus, Michigan State University (IMAGE)

Michigan State University

Lisa Lapidus, Michigan State University

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Lisa Lapidus, MSU professor of physics and astronomy, has pioneered a laser technique that measures the speed at which proteins rearrange before beginning to clump, or aggregate -- the critical beginning of many neurodegenerative diseases.

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Derrick Turner

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