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PhD candidate Bradley Class receives NIH grant to study Louis-Bar syndrome
PhD candidate Bradley Class has receiveda NIH grant to further his research on neuron mutations and ataxia-telangiectasia, a rare disease characterized by impaired motor function, dilated blood vessels and a weakened immune system.
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Hwang et al. Sphingolipid synthesis maintains nuclear membrane integrity and genome stability during cell division. J Cell Biol, 2025. Article | Torres Lab
David et al. Multidimensional third-generation sequencing of modified DNA bases allows interrogation of complex biological systems. Nat Commun, 2025. Article | Flavahan Lab
Li et al. C-COUNT: a convolutional neural network-based tool for automated scoring of erythroid colonies. Exp Hematol. 2025. Article | Socolovsky Lab