Nanoscale tech tracks proteins inside living neurons to guide Alzheimer's and Parkinson's drug discovery

Phys.org•Tue, Oct 20, 2026, 01:00 AM•2 min read

A technology developed at The University of Queensland allowing scientists to observe how disease-related proteins behave inside living neurons will be used to advance early drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. The NASTIC (Nanoscale Spatiotemporal Indexing Clustering) platform, spun ou...

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