Using a targeted gene epigenome editing approach in the developing mouse brain, researchers reversed one gene mutation that leads to the genetic disorder WAGR syndrome, which causes intellectual disability and …read more Source:: Science
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Brain changes in autism traced to specific cell types
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•Changes in gene activity in specific brain cells are associated with the severity of autism in children and young adults with the disorder, according to a new study. …read more Source:: Science
Gene therapy restores immunity in infants with rare immunodeficiency disease
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•A small clinical trial has shown that gene therapy can safely correct the immune systems of infants newly diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening inherited disorder in which infection-fighting immune cells …read more Source:: Science
Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter
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•Physicists have identified a new state of matter whose structural order operates by rules more aligned with quantum mechanics than standard thermodynamic theory. …read more Source:: Science
Addictive cravings still detectable after death
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•A protein known as FosB in the reward centre of the brain alters in chronically ill people suffering from an addictive disorder (e.g. heroin addiction): it is genetically modified, split …read more Source:: Science
Autism spectrum disorder linked to mutations in some mitochondrial DNA
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•Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have greater numbers of harmful mutations in their mitochondrial DNA than family members, researchers report. …read more Source:: Science