To celebrate Christmas, actor Kumail Nanjiani posted a series of photos on Instagram top commemorate a happy holiday spent at home with his wife, Emily Gordon. In one of them, he’s seated in front of a plate of food and…
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Digging deep for differences in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
A UT Southwestern research team has cataloged gene activity in the skeletal muscle of mice, comparing healthy animals to those carrying a genetic mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in humans. The findings, published online recently in PNAS, could…
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Drugging the undruggable: A treatment path for muscular dystrophy
Researchers at Yale have identified a possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disease for which there is currently no cure or treatment, by targeting an enzyme that had been considered ‘undruggable.’ The finding appears in the…
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