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Fragile X Syndrome: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatments and Complications

Fragile X Syndrome: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatments and Complications: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), also known as FX syndrome or fragile syndrome, is the most common inherited ...
The Daily Gamecock

USC receives national grant funding fragile X research

USC researchers received a national grant that will fund two new studies relating to fragile X. New questions and discoveries ...
Healio

FDA grants orphan designation to Fragile X syndrome therapeutic

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to a small molecule therapeutic for individuals with Fragile X ...
Business Wire

Zatolmilast, an Investigational Treatment for Fragile X Syndrome, Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation from the U.S. FDA

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; Chief Executive Officer: Isao Teshirogi, Ph.D.; hereafter "Shionogi") announced the U ...
News Medical

New therapy to mitigate fragile X syndrome may be on the horizon

An antisense therapy developed by Joel D. Richter, PhD, Sneha Shah, PhD, and Jonathan K. Watts, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School and Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD, at RUSH University Medical Center ...
Science Daily

Antisense therapy restores fragile X protein production in human cells

An antisense therapy restores production of the protein FMRP in cell samples taken from patients with fragile X syndrome. This breakthrough was possible because of the novel findings, also presented ...
The Conversation

Fragile X syndrome often results from improperly processed genetic material – correctly cutting RNA offers a potential treatment

Joel Richter receives funding from NIH and FRAXA. Sneha Shah receives funding from the FRAXA Research Foundation. Fragile X syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation in a gene that lies at ...
The Brown Daily Herald

New research describes differences in brain wave activity of those with fragile X syndrome

To understand differences in neural activity between FXS and non-FXS individuals when responding to different frequencies, ...
News Medical

New insights into the developmental trajectory of social behaviors in fragile X syndrome

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview, researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Hirosaki University have uncovered critical new insights into the ...
GEN

Servier Buys Fragile X Syndrome Candidate for up to $450M

Les Laboratoires Servier said that it agreed to acquire a potential treatment for Fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common genetic cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), from its original developer ...
ucdavis.edu

Fragile X syndrome (FXTAS)B

In a study published in the journal Neurology in 2001, a UC Davis MIND Institute team led by Randi Hagerman, Endowed Chair in Fragile X Research, described a new condition, fragile X-associated tremor ...