Gene therapy treatment extends lives of mice with fatal disease

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have found that introducing a missing gene into the central nervous system could help extend the lives of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) -- the leading genetic cause of infantile death in the world.

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