Reporting in Nature Medicine on November 15, investigators at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at CFRI and the University of California, San Diego also found that excessive extrasynaptic activity enhances the misfolded proteins’ deadly effects.
Child abuse could leave ‘molecular scars’ on its victims
Children who are abused might carry the imprint of that trauma in their cells – a biochemical marking that is detectable years later, according to new research from BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia and Harvard University.
