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Mechanism for potential Friedreich's ataxia drug uncovered
Using clever chemistry, a Scripps Research team has pinpointed the enzyme target of a drug group that stops the progression of the devastating disease Friedreich's ataxia in mice and may do the same for humans. The findings, ...
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Skin provides Australia's first adult stem cells for rare genetic disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed Australia’s first adult induced pluripotent stem cell lines using skin biopsies from patients with the rare genetic disease Friedreich Ataxia (FA).
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Researchers implicate wayward DNA-repair enzyme in Friedreich's ataxia
Scripps Research Institute scientists have taken a step closer to understanding the cause of Friedreich's ataxia, a debilitating neurological condition that affects tens of thousands of people worldwide, and so far has no ...
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Scientists identify proteins that ensure iron balance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most organisms need iron to survive, but too much iron is toxic, and can cause fatal organ failure. The same is true inside cells, where iron balance must also be maintained. In a study published today in ...
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Mechanism elucidated for a rare disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) have dissected one of the molecular mechanisms underlying Friedreich's ataxia. In doing so, they have shed new ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 04, 2010 |
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Excess DNA damage found in cells of patients with Friedreich's ataxia
Elevated levels of DNA damage have for the first time been found in the cellular mitochondria and nuclei of patients with the inherited, progressive nervous system disease called Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), says a multicenter ...
Jan 15, 2010 |
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Splitting fluorescent protein helps image clusters in live cells
Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it's way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 26, 2009 |
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Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia
Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as ...
Jul 09, 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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Moonlighting enzyme linked to neurodegenerative disease
Friedreich's ataxia is one of those diseases few have heard of unless you know someone with the condition. For that individual -- usually a child or teenager -- it is devastating. Symptoms are mild at first: muscle weakness ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Researchers reverse Friedreich's ataxia defect in cell culture
In the new study, Scripps research team tested a variety of compounds that inhibited a class of enzymes known as histone deacetylases in a cell line derived from blood cells from a Fredreich's ataxia sufferer. One of these ...
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Aug 21, 2006 |
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