{"id":216774,"date":"2026-05-19T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/how-ai-helped-find-a-treatment-for-a-newborn-with-an-ultra-rare-disease-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:55:11","slug":"how-ai-helped-find-a-treatment-for-a-newborn-with-an-ultra-rare-disease-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/how-ai-helped-find-a-treatment-for-a-newborn-with-an-ultra-rare-disease-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI helped find a treatment for a newborn with an ultra rare disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/05\/19\/ai-helped-find-treatment-newborn-ultra-rare-disease\/\">How AI helped find a treatment for a newborn with an ultra rare disease<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/05\/19\/ai-helped-find-treatment-newborn-ultra-rare-disease\/\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/05\/19\/ai-helped-find-treatment-newborn-ultra-rare-disease\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 16:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.statnews.com\">www.statnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jorie Kraus, born with an ultra rare genetic disorder, experienced severe developmental challenges including muscle weakness and vocal impairments.<\/li>\n<li>At Mayo Clinic, her genome was sequenced, revealing a rare condition caused by a gene deletion on chromosome 10.<\/li>\n<li>An artificial intelligence tool known as Biomedical Data Translator identified Klonopin, a widely available muscle relaxer, as a potential treatment for her condition in a massive database.<\/li>\n<li>The drug rapidly alleviated many of her symptoms, drastically improving her mobility and speech within weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Jorie\u2019s parents emphasize the potential for scaling genomic sequencing and AI tools to aid other children with rare conditions.<\/li>\n<li>The successful treatment of Jorie has led her parents to start the Jorie Effect, an organization that supports children with similar genetic disorders.<\/li>\n<li>Another child with a similar genetic condition experienced significant improvement after being prescribed Klonopin via the same diagnostic protocol.<\/li>\n<li>The family\u2019s public sharing of Jorie\u2019s story aims to spread hope and push for advancements in medical technology and treatment availability for rare genetic disorders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How AI helped find a treatment for a newborn with an ultra rare disease https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/05\/19\/ai-helped-find-treatment-newborn-ultra-rare-disease\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/STAT-Summit-West-00769-1024x576.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-216774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216777,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216774\/revisions\/216777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}