New technique targets gene that causes neurodegenerative disease

Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 08:31 in Biology & Nature

Neuroscientists are studying a unique gene that expresses two proteins, one that is necessary for life and another, that when mutated causes a neurodegenerative disease called spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, have developed a technique to selectively block the disease-causing protein without affecting the other.

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