New insights into inherited retinal disease
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, hav discovered new links between a common form of inherited blindness affecting children and a gene known as Abelson helper integration site-1 (AHI1). Their findings, which may lead to new therapies and improved diagnostics for retinal disease, will appear online in advance of publication in the journal Nature Genetics on Jan. 17.
22 de enero de 2010
A newly recognized class of disease known as "ciliopathies" has caught the attention of the medical community. Ciliopathies are caused by problems in the structure and/or function of cilia, which are small antenna-like structures protruding from the surface of most cells.
Fuente: University of California - UC Newsroom