Blocking Enzyme Benefits Mice With Myotonic DystrophySevere disease"The disease is very severe in these mice," said Cooper. "Eighty percent of them die within three weeks of turning on the mutation." However, a drug that blocks or inhibits the activity of an enzyme called protein kinase C reduces the death rate to no more than 20 percent.Myotonic dystrophy is caused by a mutation that contains hundreds and even thousands of repeats of the ...
Path to the Personal GenomeIn the space of a single decade, the cost of mapping all your DNA will fall from the billions of dollars to the thousands. The human genome is becoming a commodity virtually overnight.