The Odones approached Croda, which had large manufacturing plants in Hull, and the chemist Don Suddaby, who was persuaded to ...

The fledgling field of gene therapy has scored another win: An experimental treatment seemed to help boys with the inherited nerve disease featured in the movie “Lorenzo’s Oil.” Fifteen of the 17 boys ...

Augusto Odone, a former World Bank economist, defied skeptical scientists to invent a treatment to try to save the life of his little boy, wasting away from a neurological disease, and to give hope to ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Doctors had said Lorenzo Odone would be dead by age 8. He died Friday at 30.

WASHINGTON -- The man whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disease was told in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil" died yesterday at his home in Virginia. Lorenzo Odone, whom doctors had predicted ...