Seven-year-old William, a Southern Oregon boy living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is going to get a never-before-tried surgery designed specifically for his genetic mutation. NBC5’s medical ...
Researchers developed a gene therapy for LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy that restored muscle and nerve function in mice. One treatment stabilized disease progression and improved strength, even when ...
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 ...
Roche’s autoimmune drug Enspryng is making solid progress as a treatment for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD).
William is a seven-year-old boy from Southern Oregon living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Now, he is preparing to undergo a surgery that has never been tried before, a procedure designed ...
The first gene therapy for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The therapy can be used in 4- and 5-year-olds with the degenerative ...
Avidity Biosciences, Inc. ("Avidity") (Nasdaq: RNA), a biopharmaceutical company committed to delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics called Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™) to ...
When Ingram became Sarepta Therapeutics’ CEO in 2017, he didn’t have a connection to muscular dystrophy, but he has developed ...
We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...
The muscular dystrophies are commonly associated with cardiovascular complications, including cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrhythmias. These complications are caused by intrinsic defects in ...