Video: Repeat expansion disorders—how RNA may gum up the works

By Adnan Saidi

Video: Repeat expansion disorders: How RNA may gum up the works
Credit: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

What happens when an RNA molecule contains too many repeats of the same short sequence of bases, or RNA building blocks?

Whitehead Institute Member Ankur Jain and graduate student Michael Das explore how such repeats may contribute to neurodegeneration.






Credit: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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Adnan Saidi