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NIH ’s vaunted program for solving puzzling medical cases is running out of money
Ten years ago, an athletic 12-year-old from Affton, Missouri, named Mitchell Herndon began to experience muscle weakness that eventually led to him using a wheelchair. After years of visits to specialists failed to diagnose his neurological symptoms, he enrolled in a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded program that studies patients with debilitating mystery diseases. Researchers eventually found an explanation for Mitchell’s condition: a mutated gene that causes certain brain cells to produce an overactive protein that leads to neuron damage.
Mitchell died 3 years ago at age 19. Since then, 14 more people hav...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - June 27, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
