A Florida State University scientist has received $1.14 million from the National Institutes of Health to study a little understood area of human epigenetics. Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Brian Chadwick will examine what’s called the inactive X chromosome — essentially a silent chromosome in women where the biological functions are largely unknown. “The inactive […]
FSU research team makes Zika drug breakthrough
A team of researchers from Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health has found existing drug compounds that can both stop Zika from replicating in the body and from damaging the crucial fetal brain cells that lead to birth defects in newborns. One of the drugs is already on the […]
