Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an ...

The study also directly linked protein instability to the development of reducing body myopathy, a rare condition which causes muscle weakness and wasting, as well as Ankyloblepharon-ectodermal ...

and muscle-wasting diseases. Scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona and BGI in Shenzhen studied 621 well-known disease-causing missense mutations. Three in five (61% ...

Possible causes include muscle atrophy, thyroid disease, digestive problems ... the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Although the symptoms tend to vary depending on the type, stage, and ...

Roche and Sarepta Therapeutics have shared positive top-line results from a late-stage study of Elevidys (delandistrogene ...