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City of Hope gets $7M research grant from state stem cell agency

City of Hope announced Wednesday that it has received a $7.3 million grant to develop a treatment for Canavan disease, a rare and fatal neurological disease that afflicts infants. Canavan disease causes a child’s brain to degenerate into spongy tissue riddled with microscopic fluid-filled spaces, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke. Symptoms […]

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