The lab investigates consequences of epigenetic alterations in neuronal cancers and neurodegenerative diseases using a combination of biochemistry, cell and molecular biology with genome wide approaches to
gain mechanistic insight into how chromatin architecture is modified in disease.
«Having identified a link between cytoskeleton dynamics and Zika virus replication, together with the plethora of available cytoskeleton - targeting compounds, might contribute to
gain mechanistic insight into the ZIKV replication cycle and identify new avenues for treatment,» Bartenschlager says.
The ultimate goal of this line of investigation is to leverage these newly
gained mechanistic insights for developing new therapeutics in a personalized manner based on one's unique genetic and / or pathway signatures.
Not exact matches
As researchers gradually
gain more
insight into the genome's hierarchy of structures, they will get closer to figuring out how this macromolecular wonder works in all of its vastness and
mechanistic detail.
We want to
gain comprehensive
mechanistic insight into the division of human mitotic cells, provide a biophysical basis to understand nuclear organisation, and establish methods for systems analysis of the first mitotic divisions of mammalian embryos.