Fighting Back Podcast

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This is part 2 of our 2009 State of the Disease Podcast for Spinal Muscular Atrophy, where we look back at the scientific advances in SMA research in 2008 and look forward to what might come in 2009.  This two-part series features the co-chairs of FightSMA’s scientific committee, Alex MacKenzie, M.D. (Director of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) and Chris Lorson, Ph. D. (Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia).

In part one Alex and Chris discussed three of the research advances they picked as being the most significant in 2008.  In this episode, they  finish that discussion by highlighting the following 2008 findings:

• Exercise promotes motor unit development and survival in mild SMA mice
• A variety of RNA-based therapeutics that are moving in vivo
• SMA Standards of Care
  

We also tackle the future … what might come in 2009 in spinal muscular atrophy research.

If you haven’t listened to part one of this two-parter, it’s strongly suggested you visit this post, and listen there first!

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