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By the early 1990s the amyloid theory attracted the interest of Lansbury, then at MIT doing basic research on how proteins fold into their complex final structures.

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By the early 1990s the amyloid theory attracted the interest of chemist Peter Lansbury, who was then at MIT doing basic research on how proteins fold into their complex final structures.

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