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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: New Jersey
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Genetic Researchers Have Made a Significant Discovery RE: Neurodegenerative Diseases
This is very interesting:
Scientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have identified a gene that protects against spontaneous, adult-onset progressive nerve degeneration.
Dr Massimo Hilliard said that the discovery of gene mec-17 causing axon (nerve fibre) degeneration could open the door to better understand the mechanisms of neuronal injury and neurodegenerative diseases characterised by axonal pathology, such as motor neuron disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases.
“This is an important step to fully understand how axonal degeneration occurs, and thus facilitates development of therapies to prevent or halt this damaging biological event,” Dr Hilliard said.
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