May 24, 2023
The cancer gene MYC drives unrestrained cancer cell growth, but has proved a difficult drug target. Nature-inspired compounds succeed by chopping up MYC’s RNA.…
UF Health Cancer Center, +1 more
May 12, 2022
UF Scripps Biomedical Research scientist Matthew Disney, Ph.D. has found yet another groundbreaking approach to a problem that has long vexed scientists: How…
UF Health Cancer Center, +1 more
July 20, 2020
New preclinical research shows a commonly used Type 2 diabetes drug can improve symptoms in a specific genetic form of ALS and frontotemporal dementia in mice.…
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Department of Neurology, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, +4 more
May 30, 2019
A gene therapy technique discovered by a University of Florida Health researcher and her colleague is now being used to develop treatments for…
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, +2 more
May 2, 2018
A new blood test could reveal the genetic roots of muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other disorders caused by the expansion of DNA…
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, +4 more
April 19, 2018
University of Florida Health pediatrics researchers have received a $450,000 grant from the Italian patient advocacy group GoFAR to continue developing a gene…
Department of Pediatrics, +4 more
October 19, 2017
In patients with myotonic dystrophy and related genetic diseases, abnormally long, repetitive DNA sequences lead to a host of problems in the muscle, heart and…
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, +3 more
June 19, 2017
Multiple sclerosis patients with severe, treatment-resistant tremors may gain marked improvement from deep brain stimulation surgery, or DBS, in which two DBS…
Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery, +4 more
November 30, 2016
Laura P.W. Ranum, Ph.D., has been named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which recognizes those who make distinguished…
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, +4 more
September 13, 2016
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Clinical and Translational Science Institute, +2 more
