Restoring the silenced Friedreich’s ataxia gene through unconventional means (IMAGE)

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Restoring the silenced Friedreich’s ataxia gene through unconventional means

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Published today in Nature Cell Biology, researchers at St. Jude led by corresponding author Aseem Ansari, Department of Chemical Biology & Therapeutics chair discovered how their synthetic gene regulator called SynGR1 was reactivating the gene silenced in Friedreich’s ataxia.

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