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New Step Toward Treatment For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
June 9, 2006 — Researchers in Quebec, Canada, have taken an important step toward a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. After performing the first successful muscle cell transplant in young patients two years ... > full story -
Researchers Identify Major Source Of Muscle Repair Cells; Implications For Treating Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy
January 31, 2006 — In a discovery with implications for treating muscular dystrophy, researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine and other institutions have identified a major source of two groups of adult ... > full story -
Gene Therapy For Muscular Dystrophy Fixes Frail Muscle Cells In Animal Model, Stanford Study Finds
December 27, 2005 — A new gene therapy technique that has shown promise in skin disease and hemophilia might one day be useful for treating muscular dystrophy, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford ... > full story -
'Mighty Mice': New Muscle-Building Agent Beats All Previous Ones
December 8, 2005 — The Johns Hopkins scientists who first created "mighty mice" have developed, with pharmaceutical company Wyeth and the biotechnology firm MetaMorphix, an agent that's more effective at increasing ... > full story -
Cancer Wasting, Muscular Dystrophy Show Common Change
November 28, 2005 — New research shows that a wasting condition responsible for nearly a third of all cancer deaths involves the loss of an essential muscle protein that is also lost in people with muscular dystrophy. ... > full story -
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Early Cardiac Screening Necessary For Muscular Dystrophy Patients
October 29, 2005 — Early diagnosis and treatment of heart disease may lead to longer life in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy patients, say experts at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Texas Children's ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Reverses Genetic Mutation Responsible For Heart Failure In Muscular Dystrophy
October 26, 2005 — University of Pittsburgh investigators have for the first time used gene therapy to successfully treat heart failure and other degenerative muscle problems in an animal model that is genetically ... > full story -
Researchers Discover Gene Connected To Rare Muscle Disease
September 1, 2005 — By studying the molecules that regulate the formation of muscle, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a gene that may play a role in a rare muscular disease in humans. While ... > full story -
Breakthrough Study Finds Adult Stem Cells
June 24, 2005 — Ground-breaking study: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh scientists discovered adult stem cells have same ability as embryonic stem cells to multiply indicating they may play important therapeutic ... > full story -
Exercise Training In Ordinary People Affects The Activity Of 500 Genes
May 2, 2005 — A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm shows that hundreds of genes in the thigh muscle are activated in regular cycle training. The study also reveals that great differences in training ... > full story
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