Muscle biopsy is a minor surgical procedure that involves making an incision in the skin to obtain a few small pieces of the underlying muscle for detailed histologic, histochemical, or biochemical ...

These include gene-based therapies (e.g., replacing a patient's faulty DMD genes with normally functioning ones), cell-based therapies (e.g., replacing dystrophin-deficient muscle cells with stem ...

Healthy muscle cells express dystrophin (green, left), but DMD patients do not (middle). Treating iPS cells that are then differentiated into muscle cells can recover dystrophin levels (right).

Standard zinc supplementation had limited impact on muscle health or zinc levels in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, ...

Scientists have provided new insights into muscle aging, identifying critical genes and mechanisms through the use of ...

Following further genetic testing and a muscle biopsy, we were able to confirm a DMD diagnosis. Like many other parents, ...

Your doctor will use this to see where your muscles are inflamed. Skin or muscle biopsy.By removing a small part of your skin or muscle and looking at it under a microscope, your doctor can see ...

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 ...

“These results are extremely impactful for patients living with DMD as they showed sustained cardiac and skeletal muscle benefits after three years of continuous treatment with ...

William Blair analyst Sami Corwin has maintained their bullish stance on SLDB stock, giving a Buy rating on October 24. Sami Corwin has given ...

A nerve biopsy involves the process of removing a small length of a peripheral nerve for histologic examination under the microscope. Several nerves can be biopsied but the major requirement for ...