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Health News Posted on September 22, 2023

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Keep abreast with the latest news related to Prader-Willi Syndrome there are 74 news items on Prader-Willi Syndrome that covers updates, breakthroughs and in-depth reports.

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Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disorder affecting multiple body systems. Prader-Willi syndrome occurs due to abnormalities of chromosome 15.

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New Genetic Disease That Delays Brain Development in Children Discovered

New Genetic Disease That Delays Brain Development in Children Discovered

A novel genetic disease drives some kids’ brains to develop abnormally, resulting in delayed intellectual development. Most patients with the condition that is so new it doesn’t have a name yet, have severe learning difficulties affecting ...

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Mechanism Involved in Transmission of Genetic Disease from Mother to Child

Mechanism Involved in Transmission of Genetic Disease from Mother to Child

A new mechanism discovered by scientists helps explain how certain kinds of genetic disorders known as mitochondrial diseases are transmitted from mother to child. The study it reports could serve as the basis for novel strategies to ...

Repurposed Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Drug Against Rare Genetic Disorder

Repurposed Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Drug Against Rare Genetic Disorder

Riluzole, a repurposed ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) drug may help slow down a rare genetic disorder called Niemann-Pick disease type C1 (NPC1 – characterized by the gradual loss of a particular brain cell) in children and adolescents, as per ...

Lethal Genetic Disease Might Be Efficiently Treated Using Gene Editing

Lethal Genetic Disease Might Be Efficiently Treated Using Gene Editing

Lysosomal storage disease can be corrected using prenatal editing in a preclinical model as per a proof-of-concept study at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), published in the journal Nature Communications. The lysosomal ...

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FDA Approves the First Drug to Treat an Rare Genetic Disorder Which Causes Kidney Stones

FDA Approves the First Drug to Treat an Rare Genetic Disorder Which Causes Kidney Stones

The US Food And Drug Administration (FDA) has approved lumasiran subcutaneous injection to treat adults and children with primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) - an ultra- rare genetic disorder. PH1 causes recurrent kidney stones and loss of kidney ...

New Treatment Benefits Patients With Rare Genetic Disorder

New Treatment Benefits Patients With Rare Genetic Disorder

In patients with a rare and aggressive form of leukodystrophy, a class of targeted therapy drugs could help improve their neurological function, revealed new findings published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. ...

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 Dr. Aled Roberts of Swansea University. Using lung ...

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 differentiate between different categories of patients with high ...

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 familiar with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria: in ...

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 Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or ALS more closely than it does other ...

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Rare Genetic Disorder Associated With Abnormal Levels of Spermine

Rare Genetic Disorder Associated With Abnormal Levels of Spermine

Highlights A newly discovered biomarker associated with Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), a family of rare genetic disorders has been identified. The biomarker may help in the diagnosis of the disease. Also, drug development and ...

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 differentiate between organisms with a precision that other ...

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 understood. In Hyaline Fibromatosis Syndrome (HFS) a glassy ...

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 Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of ...

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 report fish-like odor symptoms, do not have severely ...

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