Cera W. Hassinan

It’s been more than 220 days of collective punishment levied against the Palestinian people. Over 35,000 people have been murdered by the illegal, Zionist occupation of Palestine. The University of Washington (UW) still refuses to acknowledge the genocide in Palestine, and instead joins the ranks of academic institutions repressing students for calling out their complicity.

Materials and methods Wild type hermaphrodite C. elegans (N2 Bristol) worms from the CGC (Minneapolis, MN, USA) were used for all assays. The worms were maintained at 15°C on 60mm NGM agarose plates with Escherichia coli OP50 lawns as food. To obtain worms at later stages of development, synchronization procedures were carried out in which 20 gravid hermaphrodites were placed on seeded NGM plates.

The sooner, the better Gene therapy approaches hold promise for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). However, these therapies showed that variable clinical response and earlier age of treatment initiation are associated with better outcome. Now, Kong et al. studied the pathophysiology of SMA to identify the best approach to maximize treatment efficiency.