Proposing a potential mechanism for C9ORF72-based amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia in Science online July 31, researchers report that repeat dipeptides made by the mutant gene ...
Associate Professor Konstantinos Vogiatzis’ lab in the Department of Chemistry is leveraging computational chemistry to address excess carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the atmosphere. One common method of ...
Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...
A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein fragments called dipeptides. By analyzing billions of dipeptide sequences ...
Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...
New findings could help scientists explain why hexanucleotide expansions in the C9ORF72 gene are the major cause of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In ...
A new class of transporter-related nutrient sensors called transceptors has recently emerged 1,2,3. The yeast general amino acid permease, Gap1, has become one of the best-characterized examples 4,5.