OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; Chief Executive Officer: Isao Teshirogi, Ph.D.; hereafter "Shionogi") announced the U ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A local program that allows people with disabilities to live independently has made a big difference in the Tri-State. It helped a set of twins living with Fragile X syndrome (FXS) ...

Nearly a year and a half ago, I penned my final “From the Editor” column for Lowcountry Parent, sharing publicly for the first time about my son Archer’s diagnosis of Fragile X syndrome at 3 years old ...

An antisense therapy developed by Joel D. Richter, PhD, Sneha Shah, PhD, and Jonathan K. Watts, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School and Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD, at RUSH University Medical Center ...

SPG601 is an investigational small molecule large-conductance, calcium-activated potassium channel activator. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to SPG601 for ...

An antisense therapy restores production of the protein FMRP in cell samples taken from patients with fragile X syndrome. This breakthrough was possible because of the novel findings, also presented ...

Brain morphology in children with FSX was compared with those who have idiopathic autism spectrum disorder or typical development.

“These findings demonstrate a gross under-identification among male youth with fragile X syndrome,” says Klusek, an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders who studies the genetic ...

Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches of neurons in the brain tend to cluster together mostly because they are abundant, not because ...

Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, may be unfolding in brain cells even before birth, despite typically going undiagnosed until age 3 or later. A new study ...

A new study suggests a potential molecular strategy for treating fragile X syndrome, an inherited neurodevelopmental disorder that causes autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. This ...