Gene Therapy Clinical Trial Yields Promising Results For Batten Disease
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
Promising results from a team of physician-scientists show that gene therapy is both safe and effective at slowing the progression of Batten disease, or Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, a rare, genetic, degenerative neurological disorder that usually becomes fatal in children by the age of 8 to 12.