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All contents provided by the site are written exclusively by professionals in the medical-scientific area, unless an explicit statement does not specify otherwise.- - Researchers demonstrate efficacy of antisense therapy for spinal muscular atrophy
- - Gene therapy rescues mice with SMA
- - Isis Pharmaceuticals towards an antisense drug
- - New finding clarifies the cause of SMA
- - Trans-splicing and gene therapy
- - Strengthening the junctions
- - New European funding for SMA research
- - New publications on SMA
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