Providing new hope for children suffering from rare muscle diseases – Medical Xpress

Stephen Greenspan and Laura Zah were devastated when they learned their son Alexander had a rare genetic mutation, which causes a deadly neuromuscular disease with no known treatment or cure.
But the results of an international study published today in Autophagy and led by researchers from Monash University, School of Biological Sciences, provides renewed hope for children suffering from the progressive and devastating muscle disease. Known as myofibrillar myopathies, these rare genetic disease…

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