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Teaser for the documentary "Friedreich's Heirs" produced by Cronopia Films

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This is the teaser for the documentary "Friedreich's Heirs" produced by Cronopia Films. Directed by Diana Nava. Get to know Maria Blasco Gamarra, the driving force behind the BabelFAmily Literary Project, and some of the inspirational writers who are involved.

Click CC on the player to select the subtitle in your language.


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Last Updated on Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:35
 

Up-coming Book Promotion in Belgrade

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Ana IlicAna Ilic

Translation for BabelFAmily by Caroline Williamson

 

When: Tuesday 31 January 2012, 6pm – 7.30pm
Where: King Milan, 48, Belgrade

Description: Ana Ilic will come and speak publicly for the first time about her first book . Verses from the book will be read aloud by actress and writer, Ivana Mihic and television host and writer, Jelena Bacic Alimpii?. Svetlana Polak, poet and writer, will also speak about the book.
Promotion organized by writer Ivana Kuzmanovic.
Music program: Zoran Stojic Stojke, acoustic guitar.
Cocktail party hosted by Laguna Publishing House

Guests will also have the opportunity to buy the book at the promotion, as well as to design their own customized ‘heart’, with all proceeds from purchases going to fund treatment for the author, Anna Ilic.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:53 Read more...
 

Video - Conference about the research project on Friedreich Ataxia given by Dr. Jacques P.Tremblay

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Dr. Jacques P. Tremblay, Ph.DDr. Jacques P. Tremblay, Ph.D

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Video uploaded by LACAF2010 on December 26 2011

"Development of a potential therapy for Friedreich ataxia"

This research project is directed by Dr. Jacques P. Tremblay, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine of Laval University in Quebec and main investigator at the Research Centre of Quebec City (CHUL). Duration of the project is two (2) years and its cost is $240,000.

Last Updated on Monday, 16 January 2012 16:44 Read more...
 

New clinical trial of Friedreich's ataxia drug

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Dr Julie Greenfield, Research Manager at Ataxia UKDr Julie Greenfield, Research Manager at Ataxia UKNews kindly supplied by Goran Ilic

3 January 2012 - Researchers at the San Luigi Hospital in Torino, Italy, have been given the go-ahead to run a Phase I clinical trial of a new drug designed specifically to treat Friedreich’s ataxia. Regulatory approval was granted for this trial in which up to 20 patients with the condition will be tested with the drug, known as RG2833.

Scientists will aim to find out whether the drug is safe, and to learn more about its effects on the body. In particular, they will measure any changes in levels of frataxin, a key protein that is reduced in people with Friedreich’s ataxia.

Last Updated on Thursday, 05 January 2012 20:50 Read more...
 

Abstract - A TAT-Frataxin fusion protein increases lifespan and cardiac function in a conditional Friedreich’s Ataxia mouse model

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Dr. Mark PayneDr. Mark PayneKindly supplied by Juan Carlos Baiges through the FAPG mailing-list


Accepted November 21, 2011.

Abstract

Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA) is the most common inherited human ataxia and results from a deficiency of the mitochondrial protein, frataxin, which is encoded in the nucleus. This deficiency is associated with an iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster enzyme deficit leading to progressive ataxia and a frequently fatal cardiomyopathy. There is no cure. To determine if exogenous replacement of the missing frataxin protein in mitochondria would repair the defect, we used the TAT protein transduction domain to deliver human frataxin protein to mitochondria in both cultured patient cells and a severe mouse model of Friedreich’s Ataxia. A TAT-Frataxin (TAT-FXN) fusion protein bound iron in vitro, transduced into mitochondria of FRDA deficient fibroblasts, and reduced caspase 3 activation in response to an exogenous iron oxidant stress.

Last Updated on Thursday, 24 November 2011 20:21 Read more...
 
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