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.