Professor Yi-Tao Yu is is quoted in Nature article, and a wins major grant award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Professor You was quoted in a Nature review article published February 4th, 2020, entitled Step Aside CRISPR, RNA Editing Is Taking Off. Dr. Yu stated that a large number of genetic diseases are the result of mutations leading to stop codons, resulting in a shortened protein that doesn’t function normally in the body. He noted that the list of such diseases is very long and includes cystic fibrosis, the eye disease Hurler’s syndrome, and numerous cancers. On February 6th, Dr. Yu was notified that he had won a major grand award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation entitled "CFTR nonsense suppression by targeted pseudouridylation.” Congratulations to Dr. Yu!
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