Sugar-loving fruit bats' genes could point to new diabetes treatments, scientists say
Scientists are studying how fruit bats can handle such a sugary diet in order to potentially uncover new ways to manage humans' glucose levels.
Nadav Ahituv
Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences; Director, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
The Ahituv lab is focused on identifying gene regulatory elements and linking nucleotide variation within them to various phenotypes including morphological differences between species, drug response and human disease. In addition, our lab is developing massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) that allow for high-throughput functional characterization of gene regulatory elements and the use of gene regulatory elements as therapeutic targets or disease diagnostic markers.
