#ScienceSaturday: October 7 ,2023

#ScienceSaturday: October 7 ,2023

#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 landscape of congenital insensitivity to pain and 2 hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies KAND heterogeneity – the…

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#ScienceSaturday: September 30, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: September 30, 2023

#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 In the rare disease space, a common and straightforward question is: How rare is the disease? But the…

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#ScienceSaturday: September 23, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: September 23, 2023

#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 RAB3 phosphorylation by pathogenic LRRK2 impairs trafficking of synaptic vesicle precursors During the COVID-19 epidemic many of us…

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#ScienceSaturday: September 16, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: September 16, 2023

#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 F-box protein FBXB-65 regulates anterograde transport of UNC-104 through modification near the PH domain KIF1A is an impressive…

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#ScienceSaturday: September 9, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: September 9, 2023

#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 The Nucleoporin Nup153 Is the Anchor for Kif1a during Basal Nuclear migration in Brain Progenitor Cells One of…

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#ScienceSaturday: September 2, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: September 2, 2023

#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. 2023 KAND Family & Scientific Engagement Conference Wrap-up A happy Labor Day weekend to our readers in the US! It’s…

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#ScienceSaturday: July 29, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: July 29, 2023

#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 in New York: The 2023 KAND Family & Scientific Engagement Conference We won’t be posting next Saturday, but not…

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#ScienceSaturday: July 22, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: July 22, 2023

#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 Plant Flavonol Rescues a Pathogenic Mutation Associated with Kinesin in Neurons We’ve spoken in the past about…

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#ScienceSaturday: July 15, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: July 15, 2023

#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 Hidden behavioral fingerprints in epilepsy Epilepsies are disorders of electrical activity in the central nervous system. When the…

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#ScienceSaturday: July 8, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: July 8, 2023

#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 Preferential transport of synaptic vesicles across neuronal branches is regulated by the levels of the anterograde motor UNC-104/KIF1A…

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#ScienceSaturday: July 1, 2023

#ScienceSaturday: July 1, 2023

#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 Modeling the motion of disease-associated KIF1A heterodimers This week we’re excited to share a pre-print* from the lab…

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