Scientists have designed two proteins that stabilized muscle cell membrane support and maintained the structure of muscle fibers in animal…
Alice Melão
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Articles by Alice Melão
Edasalonexent Could Reduce Functional Decline in Boys with DMD, MoveDMD Phase 2 Results Suggest
Results of the Phase 2 MoveDMD trial showed that Catabasis Pharmaceuticals’ candidate drug…
Researchers at Saint Louis University found that a nuclear receptor called REV-ERB is an important regulator of different steps in…
Simultaneously inhibiting three proteins can increase muscle mass, a finding that could help those with diseases such as muscular dystrophy and…
A former investigational drug initially designed to target cancer was found to have therapeutic potential for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD),…
Genetic screening for the presence of mutations that characterize Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies (DMD and BMD) in women before conception…
Positive results from the HOPE-Duchenne clinical trial support further clinical development of Capricor Therapeutics’ therapy candidate CAP-1002 for…
Acceleron’s ACE-083 Therapy for Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) Begins Phase 2 Trial
Acceleron Pharma said the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 2 clinical trial of ACE-083, its proprietary lead candidate…
Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have corrected Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) mutations in human…
Researchers investigated swallowing dysfunctions in Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) patients and found they have swallowing problems similar to those observed in…