New hope exists in treating inherited disease by suppressing DNA mutations
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 06:10
in Biology & Nature
Genetic mutation can disrupt the way human cells make proteins, which in turn leads to inherited disease. David Bedwell, a professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Microbiology, says scientists are closer than ever to producing drugs that fix this disrupted-protein pathway and drastically improving treatment of genetic disease...