Neuroscience
Researchers make a breakthrough in terminal childhood illness
World-leading research from the University of Aberdeen has made a significant breakthrough in understanding a form of childhood motor neuron disease.
Nov 9, 2015
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Genetics
Concern following gene therapy adverse events
The Editor-in-Chief of Human Gene Therapy, the first journal devoted to the field of gene therapy, and one of the world's leading experts on gene therapy have co-authored a new editorial, Moving Forward After Two Deaths in ...
Jul 2, 2020
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Medical research
Researchers discover new path to address genetic muscular diseases
(Medical Xpress)—For decades, scientists have searched for treatments for myopathies – genetic muscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy and ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease. Now, an interdisciplinary team of ...
Nov 4, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pregnancy hormone has unprecedented, powerful effect on spinal muscular atrophy
Researchers in Ottawa report new hope for the treatment of infants born with serious genetic disorder.
Jul 25, 2011
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Medical research
New hope in fight against muscular dystrophy
Research at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology offers hope to those who suffer from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, an incurable, debilitating disease that cuts young lives short.
Aug 22, 2014
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Genetics
New benchmark could improve detection of genetic variants linked to spinal muscular atrophy, other diseases
The stretches of DNA that differ from person to person, called variants, are a major part of what makes us unique, but they can also put us at greater risk of disease. Although we can currently spell out between 80% and 90% ...
Feb 7, 2022
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Genetics
Omics, sweet omics – curing the incurable, one disease at a time
They are many rare genetic diseases that strike perhaps only one in a million people. Often incurable, they can be profoundly debilitating and frequently life-threatening. Though each particular disease is rare, they number ...
Feb 28, 2018
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Surgery
High mortality, morbidity with early-onset scoliosis surgery
(HealthDay)—Surgery for patients with early-onset scoliosis is associated with an 18 percent mortality rate and an 84 percent complication rate, according to research published in the Feb. 15 issue of Spine.
Mar 25, 2013
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Medical research
Overlooked cells hold keys to brain organization and disease
Scientists studying brain diseases may need to look beyond nerve cells and start paying attention to the star-shaped cells known as "astrocytes," because they play specialized roles in the development and maintenance of nerve ...
Apr 28, 2014
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Genetics
Opinion: Why we should be worried about gene-carrier screening
The ability to cheaply and quickly sequence entire genomes is changing the way diseases are identified and treated. But it is also likely to change the way we make some of the most important and personal decisions of our ...
Aug 2, 2017
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