UPMC-Pitt trial offers hope for patients with rare neurodegenerative diseases
Doctors diagnosed Carmen Lopez with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) at birth, a rare genetic disorder that affects motor neurons ...
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Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...
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Biohybrid BCI Adds More Neurons to the Brain
But the performance of the technology—how easily and accurately a BCI user’s thoughts move a cursor, for example—is limited ...
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Parkinson’s disease-associated Pink1 loss disrupts vesicle trafficking in Ensheathing glia causing dopaminergic neuron synapse loss
The preliminary data presented in this manuscript seem valuable. The data are currently incomplete and there are numerous technical concerns, some of which may arise from insufficient description of ...