Panelists discuss how the needs of older patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) differ from infants, focusing on ...

Panelists discuss how spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) progresses over time, affecting motor function differently in older ...

The therapy used molecules called antisense oligonucleotides, or ASOs, that can alter the expression of genes through interactions with RNA, which creates proteins. ASOs are currently given to babies ...

The scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore injected an ...

Injecting medicine into the amniotic fluid staves off progression of spinal muscular atrophy in utero.Evidence is mounting ...

Digital PCR to simultaneously detect SMN1 gene defects and the number of SMN2 copies to diagnose SMA matches standard methods ...

Contact between a motor neuron and muscle cell is usually via a specialized synapse called a neuromuscular junction. Tissue engineering is essential for drug screening and regenerative medicine.

Robust Segmentation and Labeling of Vertebrae, Intervertebral Discs, Spinal Cord, and Spinal Canal in MRI Images Using nnU-Net and Iterative Algorithm.

ALS, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a disease that targets the motor neurons, nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord ... leading to muscle atrophy, weakness, paralysis ...

Motor neuron disease is a progressive neuro-degenerative disease that causes muscle weakness and gets worse over time. The condition is typically life-shortening and there is currently no cure.

and visible cramps or twitching from lower motor neuron degeneration Bulbar involvement (caused by damaged nerve cells in part of the brain), showing up as difficulty speaking (dysarthria), difficulty ...