In Huntington's, the disease- causing version of the gene has too much DNA, not too little, and the protein produced, known as huntingtin, is thus too big.
Identifying which human-disease genes have counterparts in flies means that broken (ie, disease-causing) versions of those genes can be engineered into fly genomes to see what happens.
The AIDS virus can cause a version of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, that can be treated effectively with antiretroviral drugs, according to two studies reported in the 25 September issue of Neurology.
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Instead, they are caused by misshapen brain proteins (prions) which have the strange characteristic of acting as catalysts that cause normal versions of the protein to reconfigure themselves as prions.
It is helpful for alleviating the data sparsity problem caused by version division.
Delays caused this version to be shipped in December 2008.
Al-Kindi's own treatises, many of them epistles addressed to members of the caliphal family, depended heavily on these translations, which included the famous Theology of Aristotle and Book of Causes, Arabic versions of works by Plotinus and Proclus.
This performance-enhancing trick causes old versions of the data to remain behind in what will now be considered stale pages.
The affected gene codes for a type of protein known as a C-type lectin, with the mutation causing truncated versions of the protein to be produced.
