It's like the garbage man of the cell is not able to do its job 
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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
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Italy's Alex Schwazer reacts after winning the men's 50-kilomter walk during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008.
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Eddy Riva of France rests after competing in the in the men's 50km walk of the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 22, 2008.
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NEW YORK - AUGUST 21: Tennis Player Andy Roddick celebrates Lacoste's 75 Anniversary at Macy's Herald Square on August 21, 2008 in New York City.
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Workers labour in the fields of an organic farm at Dezevci, eastern Croatia, May 27, 2008. Farm owners hope their organic products will fare well on the markets of the European Union, which Croatia hopes to join around 2011.
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LYNCHBURG, VA - AUGUST 20: Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak during a Town Hall event at EC Glass High School August 20, 2008 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Reports indicate that Obama will announce his Vice Presidential candidate on Friday and they will campaign together on Saturday.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama listens to his introduction at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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The trash keeps getting backed up inside the cell until the cells can no longer function properly and then eventually die throughout the entire brain.
was said
in MedicineNet
The virus is used as a Trojan horse that houses and then delivers a healthy, functional gene into the cells of the brain ... The genes are incorporated within the genetic material of the cells, which are then able to produce a protein that is deficient in Batten disease.
said Ronald Crystal
in MedicineNet
Before now, we had no hope of a therapy for Batten disease, but today, we can say that there is some hope ... These results are not just promising for sufferers of the disease, but suggest that gene therapy can work and should be studied for other neurological disorders. Each gene in our body has the potential to become a target to study for human disease.
said Ronald Crystal
in MedicineNet
The primary variable was a clinical rating scale based on the number of seizures, language skills, motor skills and so on
said Ron Crystal
This is potentially exciting, but it's also potentially not going to hold up
said Jonathan Mink
in Science
Treatment of Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis with CNS Administration of a Serotype 2 Adeno-associated virus expressing the CLN2 cDNA
was said
in RedOrbit
This clinical trial is an important step toward the development of treatments for this group of underserved inherited neurodegenerative disorders
was said
in RedOrbit
You can't give back more brain cells. You can't improve it. All you can hope to do is to delay progression
said Ron Crystal
in Yahoo News
