MU Researchers Find Synthetic RNA Lessens Severity of Fatal Disease
*Spinal Muscular Atrophy affects one in 6,000 children; no known cure*
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A team of University of Missouri researchers have found that targeting a synthetic molecule to a specific gene could help the severity of the disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – the leading genetic cause of infantile death in the world. (more…)