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New undiagnosed disease linked to variants of WDR37 gene

August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments fruit fly, neurological disease, Research, undiagnosed diseases, WDR37

A new undiagnosed neurological syndrome that is characterized by brain malformations and a range of symptoms including visual impairment, epilepsy,

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Image of the Month: Art meets science to visualize the fruit fly’s brain

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments ALS, autophagy, fruit fly, Lou Gehrig's disease, lysosomes, proteasome, rare disease, reseach, ubiquilin

Studying the brain of the fruit fly helps understand the human brain, both in health and disease.      

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Understanding the cell waste disposal problems in Lou Gehrig’s disease

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, autophagy, Drosophila, fruit fly, Lou Gehrig's disease, lysosomes, proteasome, Research, ubiquilin

Building up cellular waste is bad news for cells, and particularly for neurons. Such excessive build up can lead to

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Image of the Month: Snapshot of eye development in the fruit fly

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments congenital bilateral cataracts, DNMBP, Drosophila, fruit fly, Research

In his lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Hugo Bellen and his colleagues work with the fruit fly, Drosophila

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There are new key players in Parkinson’s disease

August 30, 2018August 30, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments alpha-synuclein, ceramide, fruit fly, Neurodegeneration, Parkinson's Disease, phospholipase PLA2G6, Research, retromer

The roadmap that may lead to Parkinson’s disease has a number of ‘landmarks,’ gene variants and cellular defects known to

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Sorting out what drives Huntington’s disease

July 12, 2018July 12, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments fruit fly, high-throughput, huntingtin, Huntington’s disease, neurological disease, Research

Neurological diseases are typically associated with a multitude of molecular changes. But out of thousands of changes in gene expression,

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Of fruit flies, genes and aortic aneurysms

June 21, 2018June 21, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments aortic aneurysm, ari-1, fruit fly, parkin, Research

One of the goals of Dr. Hugo Bellen’s lab is to conduct genetic screens in the fruit fly to identify

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Fruit flies: ‘living test tubes’ to rapidly screen potential disease-causing human genes

May 22, 2018May 22, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments fruit fly, Model organisms, Research, TBX2, undiagnosed diseases

It all began with one young patient; a 7-year old boy who was born without a thymus, an important organ

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The humble fruit fly continues to boost biomedical discovery

April 5, 2018April 27, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 1 Comment animal models, CRIMIC, CRISPR-Mediated Integrated Cassette, Drosophila, fruit fly, genetic diseases, Research

For more than 100 years, the humble fruit fly has been used to understand fundamental biological processes and has been

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Image of the Month: Neuron-muscle synapses in the fruit fly

January 4, 2017 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments ATAD3A, Drosophila, fruit fly, Genetics, heart conditions, low muscular tone, neurological syndromes, Neuroscience

Certain human gene variants of ATAD3A can cause rare neurological syndromes characterized by global developmental delay, low muscular tone and visual,

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