ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY(UNIST) IMAGE: PROFESSOR CHUNGHUN LIM AND HIS RESEARCH TEAM IN THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES UNVEILED A NEUROPROTECTIVE PATHWAY THAT SUPPRESSES LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE (ALS). CREDIT: UNIST Professor Chunghun Lim and his research team in the Department of Biological Sciences unveiled a neuroprotective pathway that suppresses Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). Nucleocytoplasmic...
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY There is currently no cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But new research could open up avenues for better diagnosis and more effective treatment. The study, led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Associate Professor Molly Gale Hammell, analyzed the role proteins called TDP-43 play in ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s...
This stylistic diagram shows a gene in relation to the double helix structure of DNA and to a chromosome (right). The chromosome is X-shaped because it is dividing. Introns are regions often found in eukaryote genes that are removed in the …more For the first time, a variant in UBQLN4 gene has been associated with...
