by Alex Viveros, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications Physician-scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that a gene called FOXR2 that is normally turned off in most tissues in the body is activated in at least 70% of cancer types and...
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE – INRS IMAGE: INRS PROFESSOR KESSEN PATTEN, SPECIALIST IN AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) AND HOLDER OF THE ANNA SFORZA DJOUKHADJIAN RESEARCH CHAIR. CREDIT: CHRISTIAN FLEURY Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks nerve cells known as motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, gradually leading to paralysis. The loss...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at Laval University has found evidence that it might be possible to the chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease by editing a key gene in nerve cells. In their paper uploaded to the bioRxiv preprint server, the group describes experiments they conducted that involved editing genes...
