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Drug Reverses a Form of Mental Retardation Thursday, June 26, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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A drug already on the market for a completely unrelated condition could be used to treat a form of mental retardation linked to autism—if the results of a study in mice hold up, researchers report. Scientists used rapamycin—a medication doctors prescribe to patients who have had transplants to prevent their bodies from rejecting the new organs—to treat learning disorders associated with a disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in mice. (source: sciam.com)
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