A groupproject created in my study course with the cooperation partner EFProtBio. With their still ongoing project they research on new drugs for people that suffer from Alzheimer and Parkinson.
In my Key-visual I show a state that happens in the brain on a cellular level without the usage of the drug they’re working on. It is dark, with lot’s of movement of the mRNA and you see the wrong folded protein- strings coming out of the Ribosome. This happens when the tRNA gives away many wrong Amino acid due to the too fast mRNA chain going through the Ribosome.
Goal of the drug is to slow down this process leading to lesser mistakes so that those wrong folded proteins wouldn’t turn into Lewy-bodys. The Lewy-bodys blocking the crossing points in the Axon and cell body of neurons or at the synaptic ends, which results in cell-death.
EFProtbio - Dimitri Scherbakov
