Tuesday 11 September 2012

Brain-cell Pathologies in ALS Linked to Storm of 'Awakened' Transposons

Progress in an effort to understand the relationship between transposons and mechanisms involved in serious neurodegenerative disorders has been achieved by a team of neuroscientists and informatics experts at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). Transposons are sequences of DNA that can jump around within the genome, potentially causing great damage. A close analysis of previously unanalyzed genome data has led CSHL Associate Professor Joshua Dubnau, ...

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