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Health
Rachael Ward

Australian first biobank to fight childhood diseases

The family of four year old Ivani Pathre hopes for new treatments for congenital muscular dystrophy. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)

It's hoped affordable new treatments will be created to help fight childhood genetic muscle diseases following the establishment of an Australian first biobank.

The National Muscle Disease Bio-databank will be a collection of blood tests and skin biopsies from children across the country housed at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne.

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