A New Drug Could Help People With a Rare Disease Grow Longer Limbs

The health impacts of certain congenital conditions - which affect around 3 percent of babies born in the U.S. - can be alleviated by costly surgeries, but many lack drugs to reverse or treat resulting birth differences.Now, new research shows that might not always be the case.For the first time ever, scientists have successfully lengthened the limbs of mice programmed with mutations linked to a rare condition in humans called Robinow syndrome.

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