by Public Library of Science Shown is an increased density of synapses (green) that contact motoneurons (purple) in the spinal cord of an injured animal after treatment with the small molecule TTK21-These are important for motor function. Credit: Franziska Mueller (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Currently, spinal cord injury does not have any effective treatments; physical rehabilitation can...
Tag: <span>Epigenetic treatment</span>
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Epigenetic treatments: New allies for chemotherapies?
CNRS If genetics is interested in gene sequencing, epigenetics studies how genes are going to be used, or not used, by a cell. The epigenome of a cell represents the set of chemical modifications of the DNA or associated proteins that will determine the expression of the genes and thus the cell’s identity. This information,...