{"id":217481,"date":"2025-07-09T22:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/child-walks-again-after-receiving-experimental-treatment-for-rare-genetic-condition"},"modified":"2025-07-09T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:03:27","slug":"child-walks-again-after-receiving-experimental-treatment-for-rare-genetic-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/child-walks-again-after-receiving-experimental-treatment-for-rare-genetic-condition","title":{"rendered":"Child walks again after receiving experimental treatment for rare genetic condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/child-walks-again-after-receiving-experimental-treatment-for-rare-genetic-condition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what experts are calling a \u201cdream come true,\u201d scientists used a recent biochemical discovery to help an 8-year-old boy with a rare genetic condition regain mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from NYU Langone demonstrated, in a study published in Nature on Wednesday, how a chemical precursor to a commonly available enzyme, CoQ10, can help brain cells overcome a rare genetic condition that severely hobbles cells\u2019 energy production process. Without treatment, the boy\u2019s condition is known to deteriorate rapidly and could be fatal.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NYU Langone researchers have helped an 8-year-old boy regain mobility using an experimental treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what experts are calling a \u201cdream come true,\u201d scientists used a recent biochemical discovery to help an 8-year-old boy with a rare genetic condition regain mobility. Researchers from NYU Langone demonstrated, in a study published in Nature on Wednesday, how a chemical precursor to a commonly available enzyme, CoQ10, can help brain cells overcome [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217481","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=217481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}