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Muscular Dystrophy News

Health News Posted on May 26, 2012

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Researchers Offer New Hope For Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe and progressive muscle wasting disease that affects young boys, can be treated by increasing a specific protein in muscles, researchers have found...

Scientists Design Novel Compounds for Treating Muscular Dystrophy
A series of small molecules that act against an RNA defect directly responsible for the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy has been designed by Scripps Research scientists. ...

Enzyme Function Could Hold Key in Finding Muscular Dystrophy Therapies: Study
The precise function of an enzyme critical for normal muscle structure which is also involved in several muscular dystrophies has been figured out by researchers at the University of Iowa. T...

Link Between Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy and Increased Cancer Risk
Patients with myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD) - a form of muscular dystrophy are at an increased risk of cancer, reveals study published in the December 14 issue of JAMA. Case repo...

Safety of Customized Gene Therapy Highlighted in Clinical Trial for Muscular Dystrophy
It is safe to cut and paste together different viruses in an effort to create the ultimate vehicle for gene therapy, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In a ...

Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy may be Possible Via Molecular Therapy
People with devastating genetic disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy were found to be benefited by a molecular technique originally developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...

New Experimental Drug for Muscular Dystrophy
An experimental drug has cleared a hurdle in tests on boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, says study. The drug is designed to fit a molecular patch in a defective gene. The condit...

New Insight into Muscular Dystrophy Via Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common inherited muscular dystrophy in adults. New research published by Cell Press online on March 31st in the journal Cell Stem Cell, uses human...

New Form of Muscular Dystrophy Identified
A new gene mutation that causes muscular dystrophy has been identified by University of Iowa researchers thanks to a strong international collaboration and a single patient with mild muscle ...

Key to Treating Muscular Dystrophy Present in Golden Retriever?
Scientists believe they can find a way to treat muscular dystrophy by studying Ringo, a golden retriever, who suffers from muscular dystrophy but appears to be immune to its debilitating eff...

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