A team from the Institut Pasteur working with the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) has shown in an article published in the EMBO Journal that a yeast can be used as a cell model for a rare and severe neurodegenerative disease affecting adolescents. This discovery could provide researchers with an unexpected and particularly effective tool for studying the genetics of this pathology and that of other diseases linked to the degeneration of nerve cells.
To learn more please read the Institut Pasteur press release.
