A not well know secondary effect of a drug that Biogen and Isis are jointly developing  may reverse some or all the effects of a specific single gene  type of autism.  This drug will be entering Human Trials in 2014 if all goes well.   In August Biogen and Isis announced a collaboration on a drug that looks extremely promising to treat a form of muscular dystrophy, Myotonic Dystrophy. But it may also reverse the symptoms of autism that occurs in some not well known forms of myotonic dystrophy in children. This could be a sleeper drug that may help with this larger and more pervasive societal problem.

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