The era of hyper-personalized drugs is upon us. The 1st 2 young girls w/ rare, untreatable neurodegenerative conditions are getting antisense tagged to their specific mutations nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… technologyreview.com/s/615188/dna-i… Tim Yu Boston Children's NEJM MIT Technology Review Erika Check Hayden

Fabulous work from Kevin Guttenplan and Ben Barres! What a legacy Ben left us all - in appreciation for astrocytes and other glia and especially in outstanding trainees.

Dr. Qiu Zhaozhu Qiu, a faculty member Physiology Department JHMI Johns Hopkins Medicine, was a postdoc fellow with newly minted The Nobel Prize winner Ardem Patapoutian Ardem Patapoutian 2010-2016, contributing to the discovery and functional study of touch- and volume-sensing ion channels. #WeArePhysiology

I am excited to announce that I will be opening a laboratory in the Cell Biology Department Emory School of Medicine this coming winter! We will study signal processing in the somatosensory system using mouse genetic tools, electrophysiology, and imaging.

Our KIF5A ALS story is online today. This project was initiated with Gary J. Bassell and was carried on by two talented postdoctoral fellows Devesh Pant and Janani Parameswaran. It is also not possible without great collaborations with Arne and Jochen Weishaupt. Thank you all!

A study led by Emory School of Medicine researchers could contribute to the development of new therapeutic approaches to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Although considered rare, ALS is the most common motor neuron disease in adults and is growing worldwide. links.emory.edu/ly

We are excited to present work performed in a long-standing collaboration with Gary J. Bassell! Thanks to NINDSfunding and CZI Science for support! UF Health Emory School of Medicine biorxiv.org/content/10.110… See the following thread for more details:

Development of single-molecule ubiquitination mediated fluorescence complementation to visualize protein ubiquitination dynamics in dendrites: cell.com/cell-reports/f…