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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.

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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 ...

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