VANISHING BRAIN COULD HELP TREAT
DIABETES, CANCER AND INFERTILITY
A
mysterious disease that causes children’s brain to melt away is caused by
errors in RNA translation.
Vanishing
white matter disease turns the insulation between active neurons into a yellow gelatin-like
fluid. Claire Ainsworth (Molecular Medicine: Lost in
translation (News Features). Nature 435 (7042), 556, 2005)
reports that this horrifying condition could shed light on more common problems,
highlighting an aspect of our biology that could change the way we treat
diabetes, cancer and infertility.
Further
researches are needed for a deeper examination of this exciting perspective.