Scientists have located a new step required for nerve cells to respond to DNA damage.
Why this matters: The research helps illuminate what's going wrong for patients who suffer from ataxia telangiectasia. This disease is serious, and leaves most wheelchair bound by the age of 10. So a better understanding of this disease is a great thing for patients suffering from this condition. The other reason it matters, though, is that it's easier to understand the one thing going wrong in a faulty system than the 1000s of things going right in a fully functional system. By studying a system that is not behaving properly, scientists, paradoxically, can learn more about how it should work and, in this case, improve our knowledge of the brain.
At least we can here some updates, and we can have time to think what to do.
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