5. Brain Disorders (Sienna Fedoruk)
Brain disorders and disabilities are one of the things that scientists are still looking into because of how many mutations the brain can have along with how many ranging symptoms there are. They can impact a person's ability to function when carrying out basic activities or they can affect someone's speech, look, memory, or even be fatal.
This specific article goes into how targeting the junk in their genes ultimately "tackles" the disorder. Half of the human genome is repeated DNA sequences that are classified as junk DNA which are know shown to sometimes cause disease by regulating these genes. Short tandem repeats (STR's) are being seen to expand unexpectedly linking to around 50 neurological disorders such as ALS. Researcher Xiao Shawn Liu is the scientist behind targeting these junk DNA sequences using CRISPR tools to control the repeats leading to restored cell function, reduced neuron damage, and treating brain tumors!
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April 24
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