Lack of key enzyme in the metabolism of folic acid leads to birth defects

Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 20:31 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have discovered that the lack of a critical enzyme in the folic acid metabolic pathway leads to neural tube birth defects in developing embryos.

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