University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers carrying out a small pilot clinical trial demonstrating that a drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neuromuscular disease affecting specialized nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement, according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). It can ...

Mutations that lead to muscle atrophy can be repaired with the gene editor CRISPR-Cas9. A team led by ECRC researcher Helena Escobar has now introduced the tool into human muscle stem cells for the ...

Children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare autosomal recessive disease that results in progressive muscle weakness and atrophy, can suffer the concerning consequences of dysphagia, which ...

Abu Dhabi has made medical history after Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) became the first in the world to administer a ...

A person may inherit the genetic changes responsible for muscular dystrophy. These genetic changes can also occur due to spontaneous genetic mutations. In either case, the disease is not preventable.

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved gene therapy for the treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Itvisma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-brve), an adeno-associated virus ...

Mutations that lead to muscle atrophy can be repaired with the gene editor CRISPR-Cas9. A team led by ECRC researcher Helena Escobar has now introduced the tool into human muscle stem cells for the ...

Read before the Section for Clinical Medicine, Pathology, and Hygiene of the Suffolk District Medical Society, June 9, 1885.

Struggling to swallow, producing excess saliva and drooling can in some cases be a warning sign of a motor neuron disease, according to health experts. Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are a cluster of ...