Waisman Center investigators Xinyu Zhao, PhD, and Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD, were awarded an $750,000 grant, over three years, from the John Merck Fund to explore a new treatment for fragile X syndrome (FXS) using gene …
Fragile X Syndrome
Fragile X gene’s prevalence suggests broader health risk
The first U.S. population prevalence study of mutations in the gene that causes fragile X syndrome may be more common than previously believed.
Neurogenesis and Learning: Making Connections in Fragile X Syndrome
Newborn neurons in the adult hippocampus may help form new memories. If so, might neurogenesis play a role in neurological disorders and adult mental retardation? New research into Fragile X syndrome suggests so. This disorder …
New registry to accelerate research on fragile X syndrome
As researchers delve further into the genetic basis for disease, they face a conundrum: finding enough affected people who can fill out a true picture of mutations that can vary from one person to another.