Yale Scientists Identify Potential Treatment for Untreatable “Smooth Brain” Disorders

Human Brain IllustrationYale researchers identified an underactive mTOR pathway as a cause of lissencephaly and reversed brain malformations in patient-derived organoids using a drug. This breakthrough may offer a treatment path for the entire spectrum of lissencephaly disorders. Lissencephaly is a rare spectrum of genetic disorders characterized by the brain’s failure to form its typical folds. These […]

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