Researchers Suggest a Pathway to Reverse the Genetic Defect of Friedreich's Ataxia

Monday, January 6, 2020 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists report that the genetic anomaly causing the neurodegenerative disease Friedreich's ataxia - the multiple repetition of a three letter DNA sequence - could potentially be reversed by enhancing a natural process that contracts the repetitive sequences in living tissue.

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