Project 8p is looking for companies and researchers working on novel technologies for augmentative devices.

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Disease modeling in 8p brain organoids led to the discovery of Reelin as a novel potential driver gene. Will skin cells from 8p heroes teach us about the disease and lead to treatments? We think so.

Chromosome 8p inversions, duplications, and deletions arise due to the presence of a gene cluster called the beta-defensin locus (Floridia et al. AJHG 1996).

This month’s Research Roundtable featured 8p researcher Dr. Jason Sheltzer from the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Sheltzer and his group are working on a project aimed at restoring normal chromosome copy number (disomy) in 8p iPS cells

Large chromosomal copy number variants, such as trisomy 21 and 8p duplication/deletion, affect the expression of a large number of genes. A fundamental question is how do these changes in gene expression give rise to the cellular and developmental phenotypes that are characteristic of these syndromes?