News tagged with fragile
Researchers discover way to block neurodegeneration in an adult form of Fragile X syndrome
Expression of a toxic RNA that leads to Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome is modifiable by genetic or pharmacologic means, according to new research from U-M Medical School scientists.
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Genomic fault zones come and go
The fragile regions in mammalian genomes that are thought to play a key role in evolution go through a "birth and death" process, according to new bioinformatics research performed at the University of California, ...
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Scientists glimpse dance of skeletons inside neurons
Scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have uncovered how a structural component inside neurons performs two coordinated dance moves when the connections between neurons are strengthened.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists identify synaptic defect in brain area involved in Fragile X syndrome
Researchers at India's National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and New York University's Center for Neural Science have identified novel synaptic defects in an area of the brain that is involved in the debilitating ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Researchers uncover Fragile X syndrome gene's role in shaping brain
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how the genetic mutation that causes Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental retardation, interferes with the "pruning" of nerve connections ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 07, 2010 |
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Brain changes associated with Fragile X take place before age 2
Brain changes associated with the most common cause of mental retardation can be seen in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of children as young as one to three years old, according to a study by researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 03, 2010 |
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Fragile X protein loss alters brain pathways responsible for learning and memory
Geneticists have known for two decades that fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability, is due to the functional loss of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) in the brain. Now they ...
Apr 08, 2010 |
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New clue why autistic people don't want hugs
Why do people with fragile X syndrome, a genetic defect that is the best-known cause of autism and inherited mental retardation, recoil from hugs and physical touch - even from their parents?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Back to (brain) basics
(PhysOrg.com) -- In his own words, MIT neuroscientist Mark Bear admits he did not "wake up one day and say 'Hey, I'm going to cure autism.'" But, after decades of painstaking basic research on how the brain ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Fly eyes help researchers 'see' new proteins involved in memory
With more than 1,500 eyes, not much escapes the fruit fly's sight. Now, a new research report in the journal Genetics, describes how researchers from the United States and Ireland used those eyes to "see" new proteins necess ...
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Chemists Rationally Design Inhibitors Against an RNA Molecule that Causes Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists at the University at Buffalo have used rational drug design to synthesize small, cell-permeable molecules that are effective in vitro against two common types of myotonic muscular ...
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Bone's material flaws lead to disease: Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- The weak tendons and fragile bones characteristic of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, stem from a genetic mutation that causes the incorrect substitution of a single amino ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Investigating a sometimes-faulty protein's role in brain links
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shed light on how a protein implicated in cognitive disorders maintains and regulates brain cell structures that are key to learning and ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 05, 2009 |
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Small molecules might block mutant protein production in Huntington's disease
Molecules that selectively interfere with protein production can stop human cells from making the abnormal molecules that cause Huntington's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
May 03, 2009 |
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Research breakthrough targets genetic diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- A cure for debilitating genetic diseases such as Huntington’s disease, Friedreich’s ataxia and Fragile X syndrome is a step closer to reality, thanks to a recent scientific breakthrough.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 20, 2009 |
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