Sentences with word «tyrosinemia»

The medical research study tested gene therapy in pigs suffering from hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1), a metabolic disorder caused by an enzyme deficiency.

«This finding really excites us because it makes us think that this is a gene repair system that could be used to treat a range of diseases — not just tyrosinemia but others as well,» Daniel Anderson says.

TYROS 1 and TYROS 2 are iron - fortified infant formula and medical food powders that are free of the essential amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine for infants, toddlers, children, and adults with tyrosinemia.

TYROS 1 is an iron - fortified infant formula and medical food powder that is free of the essential amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine for infants and toddlers with documented tyrosinemia.

This cured the mice of the hereditary disease tyrosinemia, which causes the amino acid tyrosine to accumulate and can lead to liver failure.

In the previous study, about one in 250 liver cells were repaired, which was enough to successfully treat tyrosinemia.

In a study of mice, they found that they could correct the mutated gene that causes a rare liver disorder, in 6 percent of liver cells — enough to cure the mice of the disease, known as tyrosinemia.

In that study, they were able to cure tyrosinemia in mice.

A person must have two variants in the FAH gene in order to have tyrosinemia type I.

«This finding really excites us because it makes us think that this is a gene repair system that could be used to treat a range of diseases — not just tyrosinemia but others as well,» says Daniel Anderson, associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

Tyrosinemia.

Tyrosinemia type I is a rare genetic disorder.