Emma Austin needs expensive therapy every two weeks to slow the progression of Batten disease, which has "no known survivors" Courtesy Kirstie Austin Emma Austin, 7, has the fatal Batten disease, ...

Researchers find that an easy-to-measure brain process may be a target or biomarker in measuring treatment outcomes in clinical trials in Batten disease. Early symptoms can be subtle. A child's ...

Amicus Therapeutics has shared interim data on a Batten disease gene therapy it acquired last year. The study has generated early evidence that the gene therapy may stabilize the motor and language ...

Twin brothers with an extremely rare genetic disorder which experts said would limit their life expectancy have defied the odds to reach their teens. Freddie and Louie Dawkins were born apparently ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As teenagers, the Benson siblings have been through experiences many kids their age never face. Christiane, 15, and Garland, 13, go skiing, play sports and run around the backyard with ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OHSU Scientists at Oregon’s National Primate Research Center recently found some of their Japanese macaque monkeys had developed Batten disease. The outbreak was naturally ...

Mila Makovec, the Boulder County 7-year-old girl who is fighting Batten disease, is in Boston undergoing an experimental and cutting-edge treatment. Mila was diagnosed with Batten disease in December ...

BEST FOR THEIR CHILD. A DAY OF CARING AND A DAY OF HOPE FOR FAMILIES BATTLING A TERMINAL NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE FOR THEIR CHILDREN, GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN DECLARED JUNE 9TH AS BATTEN DISEASE AWARENESS DAY ...