Study Sheds Light on Underlying Causes of Impaired Brain Function in Muscular Dystrophy (IMAGE)

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Study Sheds Light on Underlying Causes of Impaired Brain Function in Muscular Dystrophy

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The red dots are the toxic RNAs accumulating in the nucleus (blue) of a myotonic dystrophy cell (these are induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells) and the green is a neuronal marker.

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Charizanis et al., Neuron.

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