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StitchR, a new gene therapy technique, delivers large genes in two parts to treat muscular dystrophies by restoring critical proteins in animal models.

The human digestive system functions as a complex biological network, supported by several mechanisms that work in harmony to ...

Gene therapy can effectively treat various diseases, but for some debilitating conditions like muscular dystrophies there is ...

The life expectancy for a person with muscular dystrophy (MD) depends on which type of MD they have. Some people live a full life with MD. Others, including those diagnosed with Duchenne muscular ...

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 ...

A new technology that delivers two halves of a gene separately could enable gene therapy treatments of muscular dystrophies.

In this context, cardiomyocyte degeneration is a known complication of muscular dystrophy and might lead to both cardiomyopathy and disturbances of the cardiac conduction system. At present ...

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StitchR makes it possible to deliver larger payloads with current vectors, expanding the list of diseases targetable by gene therapies.

For the first time, engineers have digitally recreated the complex muscular architecture of the octopus arm and its unique movements, which opens the door to developing soft robotics with ...

Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, has agreed to prepare a national treatment program for muscular dystrophy. According to Dbeibah’s decision, which was published by the Ministry of Health on Sunday, the program is ...