ONPRC Breakthrough May Lead to Treatments

I just spotted an interesting news story on the Nature blog.

Scientists in the UK are investigating possible treatments based on a 2009 breakthrough at OHSU’s primate center which received worldwide attention. Here’s that story in 2009.

In short, researchers are now hoping use that information to prevent diseases caused by mutated DNA in defective mitochondria.

Here’s the article posted in the Nature blog today.

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Posted by: Jim Newman in ONPRC
On: Thursday, January 19, 2012

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  1. José Mangogna-Marketing Multinivel January 19th, 2012 at 11:42 am

    Very interesting information. We hope that the investigations be successful for the common good.
    Greetings!

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Jim Newman

I am the Associate Director for Media Relations in the Oregon Health & Science University Office of Strategic Communications (Now say that three times fast))

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