Thomas Kodadek

“Peptoids” is the term Thomas Kodadek of the Scripps Research Institute uses to signify synthesized molecules with random shapes that, by luck of numbers, recognize antibodies in blood of Alzheimer’s patients.  It’s like a fishing expedition with thousands of lines in the water, but recent experiments identified three peptoids that proved 98% accurate for diagnosing Alzheimer’s.  MORE

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