Peter L. Salgo, MD: Now we’re going to look at something called spinal muscular atrophy [SMA]. I must tell you that before researching it for this broadcast, it was not a disease that was on my radar.

Muscular dystrophy is a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive muscle degeneration. Working with mice with a type of the disease, researchers have found that by expressing an enzyme ...

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Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy will usually lose the ability to walk by their teens and typically die before the age of 30. For years, scientists have studied the use of gene therapy as a ...

Muscles play a part in every function of the body. The muscular system is made up of over 600 muscles. These include three muscle types: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. Only skeletal muscles are ...

Muscular dystrophy is a group of rare muscle-wasting diseases with a wide range of biological features, symptoms, and genetic origins. To obtain a precise diagnosis and offer appropriate genetic ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Topline results from a phase 3 clinical trial showed an ...

Muscular Dystrophies are a group of genetic conditions characterized by muscle weaknesses. They are genetic conditions and have different sub-categories depending on which area of muscle mass is ...

Erin Beresini is a journalist covering fitness, endurance sports, and health science. She is the author of ‘Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing.’ New perk: Easily find ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neuromuscular condition caused by mutations in the SMN1 gene. SMA is characterized by symmetrical progressive (proximal predominant) muscle atrophy caused by ...