Quincy Bioscience LLC
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Insights into calcium's role in neurodegeneration is encouraging research into the role it plays in Alzheimer's and other diseases, and in the aging process in general. Much of the work has revolved around the concept of blocking calcium channels, but Quincy Bioscience thinks it has a better approach. Its compound has been utilized in laboratories for 40-some years, but not as a potential drug. It's aeqorin, a luminescent protein originally isolated from jellyfish.