Escrito por Dr Hannah K Shorrock Editado por Dr Larissa Nitschke Traduzido por Ana Carolina Martins Composto modificadores de “splicing” podem regular se a terapia gênica está ou não ativa Read More…
Picture of the Lim lab taken in May 2022. Left to right: Chris Lee, Benjamin Sanders, Kimberly Luttik, Dr. Janghoo Lim, Dr. Neha Gogia, Luhan Ni, Ashley Owens, Victor Olmos Read More…
Written by Alexandra Putka Edited by Dr. Hannah K Shorrock Improving neuron firing regularity rescued incoordination but not muscle weakness in a SCA1 mouse model. Spinocerebellar ataxias are characterized by Read More…
Induced pluripotent stem cells or iPSCs are adult stem cells that can be transformed into different types of tissues or organs. This research can be used to study different disease Read More…
Escrito por Kaitlyn Neuman Editado por Dra. Chandana Kondapalli Traduzido para o português por Priscila Pereira Sena Induzir a morte celular ou degradar mitocôndrias adoecidas – essa é a questão: Read More…
The nervous system is made up of two main components: the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and the spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, which consists Read More…
SCAsource began as a website where research on SCAs and related Ataxias is written in plain language by SCA scientists. Their goal was to make research more readily accessible and understandable to Ataxia patients and families. The idea for SCAsource came from discussion at the 2018 Ataxia Investigators Meeting run by NAF. The original website, scasource.net, was officially launched on September 27, 2018. It was run entirely by volunteers, primarily graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in laboratories which study Spinocerebellar Ataxias. In 2022, NAF partnered with SCAsource and its writers to host their content and publish their articles.
PhD Student with Dr. Ray Truant
McMaster University, Canada
Bio: Celeste Suart is a PhD student with Dr. Ray Truant’s group at McMaster University, Canada. She obtained her BHSc in Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization from McMaster University. Her current work focuses on characterizing the response of ataxin-1 (the protein affect in SCA1) to DNA damage and reactive oxygen species stress.
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Bio: Dr. Hayley McLoughlin is an Assistant Professor in the University of Michigan Neurology Department, with a joint appointment in the Department of Human Genetics. She earned her Neuroscience doctoral degree in 2013 from the University of Iowa in Dr. Beverly Davidson’s laboratory and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship under the guidance of Dr. Henry (Hank) Paulson at the University of Michigan. Her lab currently focuses on establishing pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic interventions for neurodegenerative diseases with particular emphasis toward the polyglutamine disease, SCA3.
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Escrito por Dr Hannah K Shorrock Editado por Dr Larissa Nitschke Traduzido por Ana Carolina Martins Composto modificadores de “splicing” podem regular se a terapia gênica está ou não ativa Read More…
Written by Alexandra Putka Edited by Dr. Hannah K Shorrock Improving neuron firing regularity rescued incoordination but not muscle weakness in a SCA1 mouse model. Spinocerebellar ataxias are characterized by Read More…
Escrito por Kaitlyn Neuman Editado por Dra. Chandana Kondapalli Traduzido para o português por Priscila Pereira Sena Induzir a morte celular ou degradar mitocôndrias adoecidas – essa é a questão: Read More…
Induced pluripotent stem cells or iPSCs are adult stem cells that can be transformed into different types of tissues or organs. This research can be used to study different disease Read More…
The nervous system is made up of two main components: the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and the spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, which consists Read More…
In a nutshell: somatic expansions are expansions of repeat DNA sequences that accumulate in cells over an individual’s lifetime. A special kind of mutation: repeat expansion mutations Some genes naturally Read More…
Picture of the Lim lab taken in May 2022. Left to right: Chris Lee, Benjamin Sanders, Kimberly Luttik, Dr. Janghoo Lim, Dr. Neha Gogia, Luhan Ni, Ashley Owens, Victor Olmos Read More…
Principal Investigator: Dr. Marija Cvetanovic Location: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Year Founded: 2012 What disease areas do you research? SCA1 What models and techniques do you use? Mouse models Human stem Read More…
Location: University of Minnesota, MN, USA Year Research Group Founded: 2008 What disease areas do you research? Ataxia (SCA1, SCA2, SCA3, SCA6, Friedreich Ataxia) Multiple System Atrophy – Cerebellar Ataxia Huntington’s Read More…
Written by Terry Suk Edited by Dr. Hayley McLoughlin In this classic article, researchers describe how CAG repeat number variation can inform differences in the way SCA3/MJD symptoms present. Machado-Joseph Read More…
Written by Siddharth Nath Edited by Dr. Ray Truant Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is unique amongst the SCAs in that it involves an organ besides the brain – the eye. Rather Read More…
Written by Dr. Sriram Jayabal Edited by Dr. Brenda Toscano-Marquez Scientists uncover SACS, a gene containing the largest exon identified in vertebrates, which leads to ARSACS when mutated. What is Read More…
The SCAsource team is excited to announce that we are partnering with the National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) to improve our website infrastructure! As you know, SCAsource is run by a Read More…
The SCAsource team is pleased to announce that we have become a partner of the Ataxia Global Initiative (AGI)! The AGI is an international collaboration to assist the development of Read More…
Wishing you and your families a happy and safe holiday season! We will be back in January 2021 with new content. Hope you have a fantastic new year! Read More…
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