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Enzyme Replacement Therapy Launched by Takeda in India

Enzyme Replacement Therapy Launched by Takeda in India

Global biopharmaceutical company Takeda announced the launch of the enzyme replacement therapy for ’lysosomal storage disorders’ (LSDs), in an attempt to expand its portfolio of rare disease...

Overweight Teens More Likely to Develop Heart Muscle Disease in Adulthood

Overweight Teens More Likely to Develop Heart Muscle Disease in Adulthood

Being overweight in adolescence may increase the risk of developing heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy) later during adulthood, reports a new study. The risk of developing cardiomyopa...

Manuka Honey Kills Drug-resistant Bacteria in Genetic Disease

Manuka Honey Kills Drug-resistant Bacteria in Genetic Disease

Manuka honey could act as an alternative to antibiotic to treat drug-resistant respiratory infections in a genetic disorder called Cystic Fibrosis (CF), according to Dr. Rowena Jenkins and D...

Heavy Teens may Face Higher Heart Muscle Disease Risk as Adults

Heavy Teens may Face Higher Heart Muscle Disease Risk as Adults

Being obese and overweight in adolescence may increase the risk of developing heart muscle disease later during adulthood, reports a new study. A large study of Swedish men found that ...

AI can Identify Risk of Genetic Disease Causing High Cholesterol

AI can Identify Risk of Genetic Disease Causing High Cholesterol

Highlights: New AI-based technology can detect patients with familial hypercholesterolemia – a genetic disease that causes high blood cholesterol The technology can accurately different...

Phenylketonuria, the Genetic Disease Healed Using Genome Editing

Phenylketonuria, the Genetic Disease Healed Using Genome Editing

CRISPR/Cas9 system was found to show promising results to correct both mutated genes in the liver cells and thus heal the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria. Parents of newborns may be...

New Gene Therapy Medication can Treat Muscle Disease in Children

New Gene Therapy Medication can Treat Muscle Disease in Children

Gene therapy medication, Spinraza can treat the most severe form of neuromuscular disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) that is mostly seen in children from 6 to 18 months of age, finds a n...

Scientists Identify Cause of AEC Syndrome, a Severe Genetic Disease

Scientists Identify Cause of AEC Syndrome, a Severe Genetic Disease

Goethe University Frankfurt scientists in collaboration with a research group from the University of Naples Federico II have now identified that AEC syndrome resembles diseases such as Alzhe...

Genetic Mutation Linked To Muscle Disease - Myopathy

Genetic Mutation Linked To Muscle Disease - Myopathy

Myopathies are diseases that prevent muscle fibres from functioning properly, causing muscular weakness. At present, there is no single treatment for the disease, as it can develop via a num...

Many Patients Carry Rare Genetic Disease Risks

Many Patients Carry Rare Genetic Disease Risks

Whole genome sequencing reveals the complete DNA make-up of an organism, enabling us to better understand variations both within and between species. This in turn allows us to differen...

Mechanism Behind Rare Genetic Disease in Babies Revealed

Mechanism Behind Rare Genetic Disease in Babies Revealed

A rare but severe genetic disease that affects babies, children, and adults is caused by gene mutations that destroy the function of a protein but the physiological function was little under...

Facial Recognition Software Helps to Diagnose Rare Genetic Disease

Facial Recognition Software Helps to Diagnose Rare Genetic Disease

Facial recognition software has been successfully used to diagnose a rare, genetic disease in Africans, Asians and Latin Americans, finds a research team at the National Human Genome Researc...

New Insight into Odor Producing Rare Genetic Disease

New Insight into Odor Producing Rare Genetic Disease

Highlights Mutations in a single gene, FM03, has been atrributed to the cause of trimethylaminuria (TMAU), which is characterized by fish-like odor symptoms. But some people who r...

Alpha-lipoic Acid Prevents Kidney Stones in Rare Genetic Disease

Alpha-lipoic Acid Prevents Kidney Stones in Rare Genetic Disease

Highlights Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is an anti-oxidant which naturally occurs in the body and in spinach, rice bran, brussel sprouts, organ meat. ALA is also used as a supplemen...

Rare Childhood Genetic Disease Linked With a Major Cancer Gene

Rare Childhood Genetic Disease Linked With a Major Cancer Gene

Fanconi anemia, a rare childhood genetic disease, is characterized by birth defects, bone marrow failure and increased cancer risk. About one in 150,000 children in the United States is born...

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Pompe Disease / Glycogen Storage Disease Type II / Acid Maltase Deficiency

Pompe disease or Glycogen Storage Disease is a rare genetic disease caused by the buildup of a sugar called glycogen in the body’s cells. It is caused by the deficiency or absence of the enzyme alpha-glucosidase.

Extraordinary Measures to Tackle Pompe Disease Continue to be Taken by UF Researchers

University of Florida researchers are hopeful that gene therapy will help patients in the late stages of Pompe disease breathe on their own.

Deadly Muscle Disease may Originate in the Nervous System

A severe form of muscular dystrophy in children known as Pompe disease could originate in the brain and not muscles

Alglucosidase

Alglucosidase is an enzyme replacement therapy used for treating Pompe disease, a rare metabolic disorder that damages the muscles and nerves caused due to the accumulation of glycogen in the lysosome. This medication is a glycoprotein, ...

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