Durham-based Precision BioSciences, a gene-editing company, has received regulatory clearance to begin a clinical study of its potential treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a gene therapy that could potentially treat a rare and currently fatal ...

Muscle ultrasound has emerged as a pivotal, non‐invasive imaging modality that offers real‐time insights into muscle structure and pathology. This technique enables both qualitative and quantitative ...

When it comes to muscular diseases, most of us have heard of especially common ones like muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig's disease. But one of the rarest muscular disorders is also one of the most ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), led by Jorge Alegre-Cebollada, has developed an innovative method, called TEVs-TTN, for studying the specific mechanical ...

Researchers in public health have reported in the first broad study in the United States the frequency of two muscle-weakness disorders that strike mostly boys: Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative method known as TEVs-TTN, for studying the specific mechanical functions of proteins through their ...

Biomedical engineers have grown muscles in a lab to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B ...

Regenxbio filed a lawsuit in 2020 alleging that Elevidys infringed a gene-therapy patent that the company licenses from University of Pennsylvania. ・The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ...

Social media influencers and supplement companies have stoked concerns, but experts say the issue is a lot more complicated.