A group of Ludwig Maximilian University scientists led by Eckhard Wolf has developed a porcine DMD model with a mutation that mimics the hallmarks of the human disease but develops them in an accelerated mode. The study is ...
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Alternative splicing, a clever way a cell generates many different variations of messenger RNAs—single-stranded RNAs involved in protein synthesis—and proteins from the same stretch of DNA, plays an important role in ...
Jun 20, 2023
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It's not easy to distinguish between the dozens of subtypes of limb girdle muscular dystrophy—a rare, genetic muscle disease characterized by weakness in the hips and shoulders that causes difficulty walking and lifting ...
Jun 15, 2023
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My name is Antonio and I suffer from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA, for friends). My life expectancy was only a few years when I was born, almost half a century ago. And all because I "got" a rare, neurodegenerative disease, ...
Jun 15, 2023
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The lone volunteer in a gene-editing study targeting a rare form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy likely died after having a reaction to the virus that delivered the therapy in his body, researchers concluded in an early study.
Jun 1, 2023
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Researchers from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Koc University in Turkey and the Pole of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nutrition, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research at Université Catholique ...
Muscles that ache after a hard workout usually don't hurt for long, thanks to stem cells that rush to the injured site along "collagen highways" within the muscle and repair the damaged tissue. But if the cells can't reach ...
May 11, 2023
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Doug Millay, Ph.D., a scientist with the Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology at Cincinnati Children's has dedicated his career to revealing the most fundamental mechanisms of skeletal muscle development. He has been ...
Apr 28, 2023
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Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a lethal pediatric brain cancer that often kills within a year of diagnosis. Surgery is almost impossible because of the location of the tumors. Chemotherapy has debilitating side ...
Apr 12, 2023
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A study by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers sheds new light on the development and treatment of a rare form of muscular dystrophy. The study's findings were recently published in Nature Communications.
Apr 5, 2023
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