Fragile X Syndrome: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatments and Complications: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), also known as FX syndrome or fragile syndrome, is the most common inherited ...

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 ...

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 ...

Building on more than two decades of research, a study by MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports a new way to treat pathology and symptoms of fragile X syndrome, ...

Joel Richter receives funding from NIH and FRAXA. Sneha Shah receives funding from the FRAXA Research Foundation. Fragile X syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation in a gene that lies at ...

A new study shows that enhancing activity of a specific component of 'NMDA' receptors normalizes protein synthesis, neural activity and seizure susceptibility in the hippocampus of fragile X lab mice.

Building on more than two decades of research, a study by MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports a new way to treat pathology and symptoms of fragile X syndrome, ...