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Scientists develop RNA-targeting strategy to repair genetic cause of ALS and dementia
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Scientists develop RNA-targeting strategy to repair genetic cause of ALS and dementia

by  University of Florida Jessica Bush, a graduate student at UF Scripps Biomedical Research, confers with her mentor, chemistry department chair Matthew Disney. Disney’s group has developed a compound that addresses a cause of ALS and dementia in a new way. Disney is the senior author and Bush is the first author on the discovery, which...

ALS and dementia attacked by an RNA-hunting compound that recruits cell’s own virus fighter
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ALS and dementia attacked by an RNA-hunting compound that recruits cell’s own virus fighter

by The Scripps Research Institute To study the effectiveness of their compounds, the scientists directed cells from patients with ALS to become stem cells and then specialize into nerve cells. Credit: Jessica Bush, Disney Lab at Scripps Research, Florida One of the most commonly inherited forms of ALS and frontotemporal dementia is referred to as...