Lafora disease, a devastating form of epilepsy affects up to 50 young children worldwide. The progression of this disease has been identified by a team of researchers, reveals a new study. Lafora's ...

Short-term energy storage in animal cells is usually achieved through the accumulation of glucose, in the form of long and branched chains, known as glycogen. But when this accumulation happens in ...

A team of scientists have designed and tested in mice a novel and promising therapeutic strategy for treating Lafora Disease (LD), a fatal form of childhood epilepsy. This new type of drug – called an ...

The metabolic function of the essential enzyme laforin has been identified by researchers, which opens new pathways to treating the deadly Lafora's disease. Lafora disease occurs as a result of the ...

Lafora disease is an inherited neurodegenerative condition that initially develops with seizures in adolescence and evolves with progressive degeneration of the nervous system to death, about ten ...

A Middleton teenager died earlier this week after fighting a rare genetic disease.Chelsea Merrill, 18, was battling Lafora disease, which is a genetic, progressive form of epilepsy that begins in ...

Short-term energy storage in animal cells is usually achieved through the accumulation of glucose, in the form of long and branched chains, known as glycogen. But when this accumulation happens in ...

Lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy, also known as Lafora disease (LD), is the most severe and fatal form of progressive myoclonus epilepsy with its typical onset during the late childhood or early ...

Defects in the genes encoding laforin and malin have been implicated in the pathogenesis of progressive myoclonus epilepsy, also known as Lafora disease, but the mechanism by which they cause the ...

LEXINGTON, Ky (July 25, 2019) -- A team of scientists have designed and tested in mice a novel and promising therapeutic strategy for treating Lafora Disease (LD), a fatal form of childhood epilepsy.

Matthew Gentry, Ph.D, and Craig Vander Kooi, Ph.D, associate professors of molecular and cellular biochemistry, and researcher Madushi Raththagala, Ph.D, recently discovered the role of the enzyme ...