Muscular dystrophy is diagnosed using several tests. These may include: Muscle biopsy. A small piece of muscle tissue is removed and examined to confirm the diagnosis or rule out another muscle ...

There are several types of muscular dystrophy. Muscle weakness is a hallmark of each type. But the symptoms can vary and start at different ages. Some muscular dystrophies are mild. Others are ...

A gene-editing therapy designed to correct a defect in the DYSF gene — one that’s associated with a form of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, or LGMD — was found to restore dysferlin protein levels and ...

Researchers at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint institution of the Max Delbrück Center and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, have developed a promising gene-editing ...

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant muscle disease with a prevalence of 1/10,000–1/20,000 (Lunt and Harper, 1991; Deenen et al., 2014; Tihaya et al., 2023). It is ...

People with certain mutations in the gene coding for dysferlin develop muscular dystrophy—a group of muscle wasting diseases that affect thousands around the world. Professor Simone Spuler and ...

People with certain mutations in the gene coding for dysferlin develop muscular dystrophy – a group of muscle wasting diseases that affect thousands around the world. Professor Simone Spuler and ...

a protein critical to muscle stability, and its partner protein, dystrobrevin, offering new pathways for understanding and treating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). DMD, a severe genetic ...

While sitting still at your desk or watching TV, you sense a feeling of muscular discomfort in your ... is jumping around beneath it. The random muscle twitch is at best annoying and at worst ...