1/8 🚨 Out now in @NatureComms 🚨 A vitamin mitigates symptoms of a rare genetic disease. Verheij syndrome is caused by mutations in the mRNA splicing factor PUF60. Vitamin B12 restores normal development in our disease model, the worm C. elegans. rdcu.be/fyIgM
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Vitamin B12 alleviates spliceosomopathy via phospholipid remodeling
Nature Communications - The authors use a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Verheij syndrome, caused by mutations in the splicing factor PUF60, and show that Vitamin B12 can rescue the phenotype.