Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.healthcanal.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.healthcanal.com/files.php?file=Health News from HealthCanal.com http://www.healthcanal.com/ http://www.healthcanal.com/bones-muscles/6435-Penn-Researchers-Clarify-Cause-Spinal-Muscular-Atrophy.html Bones and Muscles Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:25:00 +0000 Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD, the Isaac Norris Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and Sungchan Cho, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Dreyfuss lab, have made a surprising discovery regarding the molecular basis underlying spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an often fatal neurodegenerative disease and the most common genetic cause of childhood mortality. Health News