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Monash team's breakthrough could save babies

Source: The Age
Melbourne : Australia | about 1 month ago  
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A team at Monash Children's Hospital is due to announce today that it has discovered a way to prevent progressive brain damage and death due to molybdenum cofactor deficiency type A. Children with this condition are born with a metabolism that cannot make a compound known as cPMP, which is essential...
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