Proper lipids for the heart and the brain
The research of Professor Thomas Willnow of the MDC was selected as a “hot topic” from 14,000 abstracts at “Neuroscience 2018”, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). He and his team showed that the very same receptor that regulates cholesterol levels in the blood and decreases the risk of heart attack also controls lipid levels in the brain and effects the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease.