First case of chronic wasting disease detected in a Wayne County deer; TWRA maintains hunting regulations and promotes CWD testing.

Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPC) is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder, most often caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in the NPC1 gene (~95 %). While the central nervous ...

Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

Vitamin supplements known to potentially slow the progression of intermediate age-related macular degeneration do not seem to have a similar effect on geographic atrophy, an advanced form of the dry ...

Risdiplam, an oral pre–messenger RNA splicing modifier, is an efficacious treatment for persons with symptomatic spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The safety and efficacy of risdiplam in presymptomatic ...

Geographic atrophy (GA) is one of two kinds of advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It’s an eye disease that damages cells in the central part of your retina called the macula. Late-stage ...

Panelists discuss how spinal muscular atrophy is an autosomal recessive genetic disease affecting motor neurons with 3 currently approved disease-modifying therapies that restore SMN protein ...

Introduction: Child undernutrition remains a persistent public health challenge across sub-Saharan Africa. Wasting, which is characterized by severe muscle wasting and heightened vulnerability to ...

Geographic atrophy (GA), the late stage of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), may lead to vision loss. Here’s what to expect as the condition progresses. About 1 million people in the United ...

Background The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cell 2 (TREM2) is a major regulator of neuroinflammatory processes in neurodegeneration. To date, the p.H157Y variant of TREM2 has been reported ...

WASHINGTON — The White House is attributing a large bruise on the back of President Donald Trump's right hand to him shaking hands. The bruise was visible during Trump’s visit with French President ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to treat aging-related muscular atrophy using regenerative medicine. Conventional methods to implant myoblasts, precursors to muscle ...