New NIST SRM Helps Improve Diagnosis of Huntington's Disease
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 10:31
in Health & Medicine
A new Standard Reference Material (SRM) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will help clinical genetics labs accurately diagnose Huntington's disease, an inherited degenerative brain disorder that usually begins between ages 35 and 50 and progressively leads to physical impairment, dementia and death.