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BICRA gene variants linked to a neurodevelopmental disorder

January 14, 2021 BICRA gene, Coffin-Siris syndrome, fruit fly, neurodevelopmental disease, neurodevelopmental disorder, Research, zebra fish

Genetic testing of an undiagnosed condition triggered a study that linked the BICRA to a neurodevelopmental disorder.

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‘Rule-breakers’ help identify novel gene variants that modify risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

January 12, 2021 ADSP, APOE, fruit fly, genetic risk, Late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, Research

Using novel methodologies, researchers identified 216 new gene variants, many previously not suspected to play a role in Alzheimer’s disease.

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Image of the Month: Nervous tissue of the fruit fly embryo

January 7, 2020 fruit fly, IQSEC1, neurodegenerative disorders, rare disease, Research, schizo

The fruit fly is a valuable animal model to unravel the genetic causes of both rare and more common human diseases. This Image of the

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New undiagnosed disease linked to variants of WDR37 gene

August 13, 2019 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, developmental delays and intellectual disability

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

April 2, 2019 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. Working in the lab of

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

March 12, 2019 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 neurological conditions, as is the

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

November 1, 2018 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 melanogaster, as a model system

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There are new key players in Parkinson’s disease

August 30, 2018 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 be associated with the disease.

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Sorting out what drives Huntington’s disease

July 12, 2018 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, which ones are actually driving

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Of fruit flies, genes and aortic aneurysms

June 21, 2018 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 genes that cause neurodevelopmental and