New method prevents premature halt in protein synthesis in certain genetic illnesses
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 13:36
in Health & Medicine
Improperly formed proteins can cause a host of serious illnesses, from muscular dystrophy to cystic fibrosis. A question of enormous import in research, beyond the challenge of determining how malformed proteins contribute to specific disease processes, is figuring out ways to prevent or reduce the pathologies they cause.