How defects in 1 gene cause 3 distinct and devastating human diseases

Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 12:07 in Biology & Nature

By studying heat-loving microbes, two research teams have gained new insight into how seemingly small differences in a single protein involved in DNA transcription and repair can lead to strikingly different genetic disorders in humans.

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