People with muscular dystrophy have high levels of the enzyme creatine kinase. It’s made when muscles are damaged. They also have higher levels of serum aldolase, which is made when your body ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic condition ... Research highlights that the DMD gene is the largest known human gene, featuring 79 exons (coding regions). The gene’s large size ...

While the last decade has brought considerable progress for patients with DMD, substantial unmet need remains. Several ...

People with certain mutations in the gene coding for dysferlin develop muscular dystrophy—a group of muscle ... the team confidence to move forward to human clinical trials.

A Minnesota mother and son urge action as National Institute of Health restrictions disrupt research vital to Muscular Dystrophy and cancer trials, and call for public and political support.

Morton, 25, was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy called Ullrich ... and I hit my tailbone and left side of my body. I felt pain immediately, and I also got bruised from the fall." ...

offering new pathways for understanding and treating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). A groundbreaking study has shed light on the complex interactions between dystrophin, a protein critical to ...

Researchers at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center in Berlin are developing a targeted treatment for muscular dystrophy with the help of gene ... now paves the way for first-in-human ...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Satellos Bioscience Inc. (TSX: MSCL, OTCQB: MSCLF) (“Satellos” or the “Company”), a public biotech company developing new small molecule therapeutic approaches to ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type. It’s caused by flaws in the gene that controls how the body keeps muscles healthy. The disease almost always affects boys, and symptoms ...