“After many consultations,” his wife Jane Wanjiru says, “we have been told he is suffering from motor neuron disease ... how fast it is creating symptoms like muscle weakness and drooling.” ...

Hundreds of children born with a degenerative muscle-wasting disease are to be offered a new drug on the NHS that can slow the deadly condition’s progression. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD ...

Researchers eventually want to map the effects of every possible mutation on all human proteins to transform precision ...

PEW is preferred to the term 'kidney disease wasting ... and reduced total muscle mass and reduced mid-arm muscle circumference are each recommended as criteria for muscle wasting.

Most mutations which cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, ...

developmental and muscle-wasting diseases. Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona and BGI in Shenzhen studied 621 well-known disease-causing missense mutations.