Stem Cell Pilot Study Tackles Devastating Genetic Paraplegia

 20.11.2008 08:17   medicalnewstoday.com

BRISBANE'S National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research will commence a pilot study into a devastating genetic disease in which active young people progressively develop paraplegia. The little-known disease, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, has about 1000 diagnosed sufferers in Australia, but the mutations responsible may lurk in the genes of an unknown percentage of the population.

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