Uncategorized - February 21, 2017
Hope for new treatment for Huntington’s disease
Researchers working at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and University of Southern Denmark have managed to produce short synthetic DNA analogues – oligonucleotides – that bind direct to the gene that is mutated in Huntington’s disease and prevent the production of a protein that damages the nerve cells. The discovery, published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, opens the […]