Genetic testing done for a 55-year-old woman diagnosed with an unusually mild case of AADC deficiency revealed a disease-causing…
Articles by Marisa Wexler, MS
Treatment with sertraline, an antidepressant sold under the brand name Zoloft among others, worked to ease anxiety in a young…
The first successes of gene therapy for AADC deficiency highlight the potential that gene therapies have to improve life…
Following gene therapy, people with AADC deficiency should receive a few weeks of intensive physical therapy, with additional physical…
Researchers say childhood epilepsy and mild attention deficits were effectively “hiding” a case of mild aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase…
Most people with rare diseases given an experimental therapy through compassionate use programs show clinical benefits, and most of these…
Although AADC deficiency is characterized by low levels of signaling molecules in the brain that impair its normal function,…
PTC Therapeutics will meet with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December to review the data the company…
The AADC enzyme can undergo a process called phosphorylation at a specific molecular site to increase its activity, a study…
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool — OpenAI’s GPT application programming interface (API) — has been integrated into FindZebra,…