Category: Science Saturday

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Presynaptic perspective: Axonal transport defects in neurodevelopmental disorders When you get caught in a traffic jam, there can…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Clinical exome sequencing uncovers genetic disorders inneonates with suspected hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy:A retrospective analysis Brain injuries and developmental disorders…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Genetic Alterations in a Large Population of Italian Patients Affected by Neurodevelopmental Disorders We often talk about genetic…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. Meet our Guest Bloggers! This spring we’ve been quite fortunate to be joined by 6 Master’s students from Columbia University,…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Whole exome sequencing in Serbian patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia This year we’ve seen several studies investigating the…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Whole genome sequencing increases the diagnostic rate in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is an inherited disorder that…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. Meet our Guest Bloggers! This spring we’ve been quite fortunate to be joined by 6 Master’s students from Columbia University,…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research SPARKing New Insight Into Autism Across the Lifespan When I was growing up, autism was still unfamiliar to…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research A Model for Chemomechanical Coupling of Kinesin‑3 Motor Like humans, KIF1A pairs walk one step at a time,…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Overarching pathomechanisms in inherited peripheral neuropathies, spastic paraplegias, and cerebellar ataxias What causes KAND? At the simplest level,…

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Unraveling the genetic landscape of undiagnosed cerebellar ataxia in Brazilian patients In this week’s article, researchers in Brazil…