Kobe University Mar 31 2026 Understanding how proteins interact with their own mirror images enabled a Kobe University research team to design a small mirror protein that disables a causal factor of Alzheimer's disease, amyloid-beta. Alzheimer's is formed by proteins in brain cells that have lost their natural shape and have become "disordered." The main protein involved in this is called amyloid-beta. It is thought that such disordered proteins attach to other proteins, causing them to become