Tag: John Conrad Tan
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Investigating the Role of pvr in Drosophila melanogaster DM1-Related Muscle-Wasting
By Victoria Ashton, Delaney Baratka, John Conrad Tan Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ginny Morriss Abstract DM1 is a progressive and multi-systemic muscle-wasting disorder caused by an expansion of CTG repeats in the 3’ UTR region in the DMPK gene. Though the mechanism of how DM1 works is still unknown, research has indicated that PDGFRβ pathway signaling…