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When stem cells are injected into thick tissues, they often clump together and die from lack of oxygen or nutrients, making it almost impossible to use them for thick, highly vascularized tissues like ...

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 ...

New research by the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit of the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), affiliated with University of Montreal, highlights the colossal challenges faced by people ...

On Tuesday, Wave Life Sciences Ltd. (NASDAQ:WVE) revealed interim data from the ongoing Phase 2 FORWARD-53 study of WVE-N531 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients amenable to exon 53 skipping ...

Pathologic changes of the X-chromosome gene for dystrophin give rise to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and dystrophin -- which minimizes muscle fiber loss due to sarcolemma contraction damage when ...

A new rare muscle disorder has been identified by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB). This hereditary disease is caused by a defect in the BICD2 gene that manifests itself in altered ...

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 ...

・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 ...