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MLD

American  

  1. median lethal dose.

  2. minimum lethal dose.

MLD British  

abbreviation

  1. minimum lethal dose (the smallest amount of a drug or toxic agent that will kill a laboratory animal)

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A similar method has been used in other gene therapies, such as the treatment for another rare inherited condition, MLD.

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Lily's parents are calling on the government, for the NHS and National Screening Committee to add MLD to the list of serious genetic conditions that are screened for at birth.

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"The only way we could have saved Lily would have been to know she had MLD before it started to take effect", Emily says.

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Libmeldy was first used in the UK in 2023 when it successfully halted the progress of MLD in Teddie.

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The odds of carrying MLD are 40,000 to one.

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