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 ...

Dystrophy is any condition in which a part of the body weakens or wastes away. In muscular dystrophy, the weakness is in the muscles. An inherited genetic mistake prevents the body from making a ...

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 ...

A Minnesota mother and son urge action as National Institute of Health restrictions disrupt research vital to Muscular ...

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.

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." ...

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 ...

Dec. 16, 2024 — A novel drug holds promise for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disorder that causes severe muscle degeneration. Researchers have discovered that an ...