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Over the years, Sullivan Ramirez herself has struggled with nerve degeneration and scleroderma, a rare condition that involves the tightening of the skin and connective tissues.

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Quiroz has also identified a woman with a protective genetic mutation that kept her from developing cognitive impairments and brain degeneration even though her brain showed high levels of amyloid, a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s development.

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The brain slowly undergoes degeneration in a way similar to aging.

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Meanwhile, Staahl was looking at treatment for disorders that specifically lead to neural degeneration – something that had not previously been part of Doudna’s lab’s research prior to him joining.

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Unfortunately this is the degeneration of synaptic junctions and the inability of growing new neurons.

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Except in this disease, the degeneration indicates a serious blood condition.

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Sir John had lately noticed another degeneration, namely, in the quality of the London gas.

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The degeneration of the original species is still greater in our climates.

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Finally he takes to drinking and becomes a picture of degeneration.

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That any degeneration might come in by the way, that the printed text might contain blunders, was not perceived.