Aisha I Abdullah PhD,  —

A urine analysis, called a urine proteome, found higher expression of specific proteins in people with different subtypes of Batten disease, a study reports. These proteins may be useful as easily accessible biomarkers of disease progression and response to treatment, its researchers wrote. They might also…

Compared to children whose vision loss is due to Stargardt disease, those with  juvenile Batten (CLN3) disease have more extensive retinal pathology leading to a distinctively more rapid loss of visual acuity, color blindness, and poor retinal responses to light, a…