#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…
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#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,…
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Read More#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…
Read More#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…
Read More#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,…
Read More#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…
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Call to Action for all KAND families and supporters that live in the US! Today, on Rare Disease Day, let’s all band together to reach out to our state’s Federal Senators and Representatives to ask for funding for rare disease research and for genetic testing to be available to all (without having to fight your…
Read More#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,…
Read More#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,…
Read More#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…
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