A research team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, California — one of the world’s largest independent, not-for-profit organizations focusing on research in the biomedical sciences — has discovered a simple method for converting human skin cells into neurons that locate and transmit…
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Although Friedreich’s ataxia is a condition with a known cause (a genetic abnormality on chromosome 9 that depletes cells of frataxin protein), some cases of the disease throw clinicians a curve ball. Such was the case for one 48-year-old man with a known diagnosis of Friedreich’s ataxia. He was…
Results are in for an open-label phase 2 clinical trial of interferon gamma (IFN-γ) treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) sponsored by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia along with collaborators at the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance and Vidara Therapeutics Research Ltd. David Lynch, MD, PhD, served as the principal investigator. The…
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