Current Issues

So what is an Orphan drug anyway?

An orphan drug is a medication that is used to treat life threatening rare diseases (an orphan disease), for which no treatment, or no...

Blau by Genotype

Research examining Blau-related symptomatology by genetic variant raises interesting questions. While all mutations occur in the NOD2...

Creating a Blau Database

It is one of our goals at curebs.com to create a database of Blau patients that can be accessed and updated by patients as well as...

Uveitis and Blau

Last December there was an amazing study published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology that looked at 50 Blau syndrome patients...

Thalidomide, Growth and Blau

One of the biggest issues for those dealing with Blau syndrome is growth. For some reason Blau patients struggle with height and weight....

CRISPR and Blau Syndrome

CRISPR/Cas9 is technology for editing genomes by acting like a pair of scissors and cutting and altering strands of DNA. Blau syndrome is...