The Durrant lab have shown for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer’s can stick to and damage the connections between brain cells by using living human brain tissue. Congratulations to the Durrant lab for their recent publication in Nature!'Divergent actions of physiological and pathological amyloid-β on synapses in live human brain slice cultures'Robert I. McGeachan, Soraya Meftah, Lewis W. Taylor, James H. Catterson, Danilo Negro, Calum Bonthron, Kristján Holt, Jane Tulloch, Jamie L. Rose, Francesco Gobbo, Ya Yin Chang, Jamie Elliott, Lauren McLay, Declan King, Imran Liaquat, Tara L. Spires-Jones, Sam A. Booker, Paul M. Brennan & Claire S. DurrantRead the full publication here: Nature CommunicationsHuge congratulations to all! This article was published on 2025-05-01