Synthetic gene circuits pump up cell signals in study of neurodegenerative diseases

Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 13:01 in Biology & Nature

Synthetic genetic circuitry created by researchers is helping them monitor cell mechanisms that degrade the misfolded proteins implicated in neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists have designed a sophisticated circuit that signals increases in the degradation of proteins by the cell's ubiquitin proteasome system.

Read the whole article on Science Daily

More from Science Daily

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net