New light has been shed on the molecular mechanisms that lie at the base of one of the most common genetic diseases, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney, which in Italy alone affects 60 thousand people.
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Collaboration agreement between Telethon Foundation and Rare Partners
Telethon has renewed the agreement with Rare Partners for the development of diagnostic tools and therapeutic approaches based on the results of research projects funded by the Telethon Foundation.
New “muscle-saver” molecular strategy discovered
A new molecular strategy is described for enhancement of muscle growth and for consequent containment of the adverse effects of degenerative diseases such as muscular dystrophy and atrophy
Possible culprits in congenital heart defects identified
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Padua-Dulbecco Telethon Institute in Italy have shown that mitochondria remarkably also orchestrate events that determine a cell’s future, at least in the embryonic mouse heart