Celebrities aid family devastated by rare disease
Weimer and her colleagues are currently growing cells from the Gray daughters’ blood even cells grown outside of the body show telltale signs of Batten disease and testing panels of synthetic drugs to identify one that might reverse the damage in cells.
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