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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare hereditary disease that is associated with progressive muscle wasting. The disease is chronic and begins in childhood. The life expectancy of affected patients is significantly ...
Feb 12, 2025
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A newly discovered line of communication between body muscle and the pituitary gland may play an unexpected role in female fertility, according to a new study.
Feb 5, 2025
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Children's Mercy Kansas City has achieved a significant advancement toward the treatment of rare genetic diseases through the use of personalized antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs). This innovative approach has shown promising ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Researchers at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint institution of the Max Delbrück Center and Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, have developed a promising gene-editing approach intended to restore ...
Jan 7, 2025
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A new study has shed light on the complex interactions between dystrophin, a protein critical to muscle stability, and its partner protein, dystrobrevin, offering new pathways for understanding and treating Duchenne Muscular ...
Jan 2, 2025
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A new gene editing tool that helps cellular machinery skip parts of genes responsible for diseases has been applied to reduce the formation of amyloid-beta plaque precursors in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, researchers ...
Dec 23, 2024
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A novel drug holds promise for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder that causes severe muscle degeneration.
Dec 16, 2024
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Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa have discovered an 18-digit code that allows proteins to attach themselves to exosomes—tiny pinched-off pieces of cells that travel around the body and deliver ...
Dec 11, 2024
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A recent study published in the journal Human Gene Therapy evaluated the long-term survival and cardiac efficacy of the gene therapy delandistrogene moxeparvovec in a rat model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
Dec 4, 2024
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Gene therapy can effectively treat various diseases, but for some debilitating conditions like muscular dystrophies there is a big problem: size. The genes that are dysfunctional in muscular dystrophies are often extremely ...
Nov 14, 2024
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