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Drug invented for a girl with Batten disease

Doctors from Boston sequenced in detail whole genome of Mila and found the disease-causing mutation

12-Oct-2019

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Mila Makovec, now aged eight, was diagnosed with fatal and untreatable Batten disease.

Doctors from Boston Children's Hospital in the US created the tailor-made drug for Mila.

Mila was treated with the drug - named Milasen - on 31 January 2018.

Drug sticks to the forming mRNA and stops it being cut in the wrong the place.

Details have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Boston Children's Hospital

Center for pediatric health care

The New England Journal of Medicine

Scientific Journal devoted to medical research

Timothy Yu

Doctor and Principal investigator of the Yu lab.

Topics mentioned on this page:
Precision Medicine, Gene Therapy