Tag: Duchenne muscular dystrophy
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Nation & World
Study looks to genome editing to treat deadly degenerative disorder
Harvard stem-cell research receives support from Sarepta Therapeutics for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Nation & World
Potential treatment for muscular dystrophy
Harvard researchers report that by identifying and mimicking important developmental cues, they have been able to drive cells to grow into muscle fibers capable of contracting in a dish and multiplying in large numbers. This new method of producing muscle cells could offer a better model for studying muscle diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, and…