Gene Therapy Clinical Trial Yields Promising Results For Batten Disease

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 08:28 in Health & Medicine

Promising results from a team of physician-scientists show that gene therapy is both safe and effective at slowing the progression of Batten disease, or Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, a rare, genetic, degenerative neurological disorder that usually becomes fatal in children by the age of 8 to 12.

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