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Tag: Department of Biological Sciences
In UA Research, Tiny Worm Mimics Key Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s
UA researchers use tiny roundworms known as C. elegans, which share roughly half their genes with humans, to study human diseases. The worms recapitulate the clinical trend of Alzheimer’s risk seen in humans that harbor these heritable differences.
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A&S in the News: January 13-19, 2019
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A&S in the News: November 25-December 1, 2018
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A&S in the News: October 21-27, 2018
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UA Leads Effort to Understand Imperiled Mussel Biodiversity
Dr. Carla Atkinson’s team seeks to understand how different species of mussels in the same watershed perform different functions, seeing how environmental factors such as placement, temperature and water flow influence their roles in the river.
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UA Researchers Examining Parkinson’s Resilience
From the September 2018 Desktop News | Diseases have a spectrum of risk, even those partially embedded in genes such as Parkinson’s disease. Less than 10 percent of those with Parkinson’s can pinpoint their genes as the only culprit, while scores of others with some genetic markers are diagnosed with the disease. Still others have markers to develop Parkinson’s, but do not. Why? Research underway at The University of Alabama, supported by the National Institutes of Health, hopes to identify factors […]
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A&S in the News: July 29-August 4, 2018
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UA Researchers Examining Parkinson’s Resilience
Research underway at The University of Alabama, supported by the National Institutes of Health, hopes to identify factors and methods through which individuals are either resilient or susceptible to the neurodegeneration in the brain as part of the disease.
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A&S in the News: July 22-28, 2018
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