{"id":183105,"date":"2024-02-19T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-genetic-therapy-shows-promise-for-motor-neuron-disease-and-frontotemporal-dementia"},"modified":"2024-02-19T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:22:27","slug":"new-genetic-therapy-shows-promise-for-motor-neuron-disease-and-frontotemporal-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-genetic-therapy-shows-promise-for-motor-neuron-disease-and-frontotemporal-dementia","title":{"rendered":"New genetic therapy shows promise for motor neuron disease and frontotemporal dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-genetic-therapy-shows-promise-for-motor-neuron-disease-and-frontotemporal-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macquarie University neuroscientists have developed a single-dose genetic medicine that has been proven to halt the progression of both motor neuron disease (MND) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in mice\u2014and may even offer the potential to reverse some of the effects of the fatal diseases.<\/p>\n<p>It may also hold opportunities for treating more common forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease, which is the second most common cause of death in Australia after heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>The new treatment, dubbed CTx1000, targets pathological build-ups of the protein TDP-43 in cells in the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie University neuroscientists have developed a single-dose genetic medicine that has been proven to halt the progression of both motor neuron disease (MND) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in mice\u2014and may even offer the potential to reverse some of the effects of the fatal diseases. It may also hold opportunities for treating more common forms of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}