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BEER-SHEVA, Israel, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a new method for rapidly diagnosing brain blood vessel pathology that may lead to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer s disease, as well as other neurological and psychiatric conditions, including epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and stroke. The novel method is based on analysis of EEG patterns using proprietary algorithms and was invented by Dr. Dan Milikovsky and Prof. Alon Friedman, MD-PhD, Departments of Physiology and Cell Biology, Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Chinese Researchers Develop Gene Therapy That Can Delay Ageing
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing have developed a new gene therapy that delays aging in mice and extends their lifespans by a quarter. Further reports suggest that it could also be used for humans in the near future.
The detailed report that was published in the Science Translational Medicine Journal a few weeks ago highlights a method for the deactivation of the kat7 gene which is responsible for cellular aging in living organisms.
The team of biologists that was co-supervised by Professor Qu Jing used the CRISPR-Cas9 method to study thousands of genetic threads and identified the kat7 gene as the most efficient contributor to cellular aging.