Study suggests possible treatment for neurological disorder Rett syndrome

Monday, February 9, 2009 - 18:07 in Health & Medicine

Using injections of a small derivate of the protein insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), scientists at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have successfully treated a mouse model of the devastating neurological disorder Rett syndrome.

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