Tay-Sachs Disease - Treatment



There is currently no treatment for Tay-Sachs disease. Scientists hope to develop some type of treatment eventually. The treatment would involve providing babies with Tay-Sachs disease new genes. These genes would take

over the job of making the enzyme the babies currently lack. While this technology is now being investigated, no technique has yet been shown to work satisfactorily.

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