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Moonlighting enzyme linked to neurodegenerative disease

Friedreich's ataxia is one of those diseases few have heard of unless ...xactly what is happening to them." Friedreich's ataxia is an inherited neurodegenerative disease of children and teens and is considered an orphan disease ...

Ghost protein leaves fresh tracks in the cell

...and the degenerative brain disease spinocerebellar ataxia 5. "As we learn more about mutations involving spectrin and their relationships to human diseases, we're going to have more and more questions about how these mutations affect specific functions of the molecule," he said. ...

Heal thyself: Systems biology model reveals how cells avoid becoming cancerous

...NA damage caused by ultraviolet light is disabled, ataxia telangiectasia, a progressive, neurodegenerative childhood disease, Werner syndrome, a premature aging disorder, and others. "DNA damage is a basic physiological process that is important to coping with environmental toxins and a number of congenita...

U of MN researchers identify ataxia gene

...gnoses and gives us new insight into the causes of ataxia and other neurodegenerative diseases, an important...e have a genetic form of ataxia. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) is a dominant gene disorder; if a parent has the disease, each of their children has a...

Study ties 'new' cell-death mechanism to developmental and degenerative brain disorders

...nt disease manifestations. The Filipino family's ataxia is an adult-onset type with prominent motor coordi...mptoms and cerebellar atrophy. The French family's ataxia is a childhood-onset type, with mental retardation and seizures in some individuals. With mental ret...

Pinpointing the cause of a neurodegenerative disorder

...he rare neurodegenerative disorder spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) suffer damage to cerebellar Purkinje cells caused by a toxic buildup of the protein Ataxin-1. Researchers knew that SCA1, Huntington's disease and other related disorders arise because of a "genetic stutter," in which a mutation causes ...

Researchers feed tiny pills of RNA to planarians to identify genes essential for regeneration

...d to human genes associated with diseases, such as ataxia (inability to coordinate muscular movements), bradyopsia (slow vision), and cancer. Only eight of those genes have a corresponding knockout gene in mice. This means researchers may be able to use planarians to learn about human diseases that can't be...

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