It’s called Atrogin-1 and it’s a protein that plays an important role in cardiac health: its task, as demonstrated by a study funded by Telethon, is to identify and dispose of the waste substances produced by cellular activity, which would be harmful to the heart.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Gene therapy: a “molecular scalpel” corrects the genes of blood stem cells
A group of researchers at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (TIGET) in Milan was able for the first time to rewrite the DNA of human blood stem cells by editing the genome.