gene
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Here, the gene that makes otoferlin is broken—so the protein is missing and the signal stops cold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The analysis revealed changes in gene activity in two important types of brain cells.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
Otarmeni delivers a working copy of the gene which produces the protein directly into the inner ear.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The mother of a six-year-old girl who had life-changing eye gene therapy says it is "like someone waved a magic wand and restored her sight in the dark".
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Beadle and Tatum shared a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their discovery, but the Beadle/Tatum experiment raised a crucial question that remained unanswered: How did a gene “encode” information to build a protein?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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