This movie describes the development of Alzheimer’s disease at a molecular level. It shows the very important role of the amyloid-beta peptides in the generation of deadly plaques in the brain. It is proposed by the research of professor Patrick C. Fraering who is head of the laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Alzheimer’s Disease at the Life Science department and Brain Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne – EPFL.
Professor Patrick Fraering’s lab website is at:
The graphics and sound engineering is done by the Visualbiotech team with help of its rendering and simulation system called BioInspire.
Visualbiotech engineers:
Pablo de Heras Ciechomski
Robin Mange
website:
Music is composed by Kevin Macleod:
We hope you learned something new!