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The film is the first film to be released for CBS Films, through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, on May 18, 2010. The medical drama stars Brendan Frasier as a father of two children who fall victim to a rare disease with no cure. Being in a dire situation, he turns to a medical professor (played by Harrison Ford) for help in developing a cure for the disease before it's too late.
The Extraordinary Measures releases will feature the following bonus materials:
-- Meet John Crowley Extraordinary Measures: The Power to Overcome
-- BD-Live and movieIQ (Blu-ray only)
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As scientists work to find new treatments for Pompe disease - the devastating genetic "villain" that drives the efforts of the main characters in the new film "Extraordinary Measures" - University of Florida researchers are hopeful that gene therapy will help patients in the late stages of the disease breathe on their own.
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Clinical trials of a gene therapy for Pompe-related breathing problems in six infants are expected to begin at UF this summer.
Writing today in Molecular Therapy, scientists with UF's Powell Gene Therapy Center describe how they used a gel to deliver a corrective gene directly to the diaphragms of a mouse model of the disease. In people, Pompe disease is a form of muscular dystrophy that causes extreme muscle weakness and leads to severe breathing difficulty.
"In disease treatment we always think prevention is better and easier than reversal, but we don't always have the opportunity to prevent some diseases," said Dr. Barry Byrne, a UF pediatric cardiologist and the director of the Powell Gene Therapy Center. "When we find out that reversal of what could be considered permanent damage is possible, that is extremely encouraging."
Children with Pompe disease cannot produce the enzyme acid alpha-glucosidase, or GAA. Without the enzyme, sugars and starches that are stored in the body as glycogen accumulate and destroy muscle cells, particularly those of the heart and respiratory muscles.
