- Chi-Ming Yang
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Chi-Ming Yang is the director of the Neurochemistry and Physical Organic Chemistry Laboratory at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. In 2000, he discovered that the prion protein associated with vCJD and the amyloid precursor protein associated with early stage Alzheimer's have very similar amino acid sequences.[1]
References
- ^ Alzheimer's and CJD 'similar', BBC News, 23 August 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/892819.stm
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