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03-20-2007, 05:28 AM
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070319190030.htm
Science Daily — A powerful gamma ray source built to help the U.S. Army calibrate radiation safety equipment might also help scientists decipher a debilitating disease.
Using generations of tiny C. elegans nematode worms descended from ancestors who were genetically tagged in the Army's gamma ray chamber, Boyd and her student assistants are trying to learn what effects different enzymes have on clumps of amino acids associated with Huntington's disease.
UAH students and faculty are working with the Army's Primary Standards Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal and several tiny worms (who didn't always glow in the dark) to search for clues that might lead to new therapies for Huntington's disease.
"This line of research is definitely worth pursuing," said Dr. Lynn Boyd, an associate professor of biology at UAH. "It's still too early to say whether anything therapeutic might come from this, but it is … promising."
Using generations of tiny C. elegans nematode worms descended from ancestors who were genetically tagged in the Army's gamma ray chamber, Boyd and her student assistants are trying to learn what effects different enzymes have on clumps of amino acids associated with Huntington's disease.
Science Daily — A powerful gamma ray source built to help the U.S. Army calibrate radiation safety equipment might also help scientists decipher a debilitating disease.
Using generations of tiny C. elegans nematode worms descended from ancestors who were genetically tagged in the Army's gamma ray chamber, Boyd and her student assistants are trying to learn what effects different enzymes have on clumps of amino acids associated with Huntington's disease.
UAH students and faculty are working with the Army's Primary Standards Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal and several tiny worms (who didn't always glow in the dark) to search for clues that might lead to new therapies for Huntington's disease.
"This line of research is definitely worth pursuing," said Dr. Lynn Boyd, an associate professor of biology at UAH. "It's still too early to say whether anything therapeutic might come from this, but it is … promising."
Using generations of tiny C. elegans nematode worms descended from ancestors who were genetically tagged in the Army's gamma ray chamber, Boyd and her student assistants are trying to learn what effects different enzymes have on clumps of amino acids associated with Huntington's disease.