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The researchers checked 1,200 flowers near the aggregations but found no larvae.

Other researchers had reported aggregations of beetles.

It might be relevant to other neurodegenerative diseases that involve protein aggregations," such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, he notes.

In a series of tests, the scientists found that when such animals received trehalose in their drinking water, they had fewer protein aggregations in their brain cells, less brain-cell death, and better scores on coordination tests than did similar mice not getting trehalose.

These include proteins that prevent enzymes from triggering cell death, antibiotics, and other compounds that inhibit protein aggregation.

Scientists in Japan now report that a simple sugar called trehalose can impede this protein aggregation in test-tube and animal experiments.