NEWS
Feb 2012
Dear Visitor,
Recently Prof. Lahue and his group of the School of Natural Sciences at NUI
Galway made significant progress in managing neurodegenerative diseases,
such as Huntington's disease.
Today, Feb. 21th, 2012 he was interviewed by "Morning Ireland". Please find
below the RTE podcast link of "Weakness found in Huntington's Disease: NUI
Galway's Prof Bob Lahue":
http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/player.html?20120222,3206420,32064
20,flash,257
Best regards
Heinz Peter Nasheuer.
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Dr. Heinz Peter Nasheuer
Head of School and Senior Lecturer
School of Natural Sciences
NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
For more information please look at the publication:
Debacker K, Frizzell A, Gleeson O, Kirkham-McCarthy L, Mertz T, et al.
(2012) Histone Deacetylase Complexes Promote Trinucleotide Repeat
Expansions. PLoS Biol 10(2): e1001257. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001257
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.10012
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