New biomarker found for group of rare metabolic diseases

Monday, August 7, 2017 - 18:32 in Health & Medicine

A newly discovered biomarker associated with a rare metabolic disorder may facilitate better diagnosis and identification of new drugs for clinical trials for the disease. Development of treatments for the neurological symptoms of mucopolysaccharidoses, a family of rare genetic disorders, have been hindered by the lack of objective measures of the extent of central nervous system damage in patients.

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