Researchers have worked out the exact function of an enzyme that is critical for normal muscle structure and is involved in several muscular dystrophies. The findings could be used to develop rapid, ...

Muscle tissue provides the largest store of potentially available protein in the body; it is considerable reduced in children with severe protein energy malnutrition (PEM). After nutritional recovery ...

A team of Vanderbilt researchers has developed a wirelessly activated device that mimics the wavelike muscular function in the esophagus and small intestine responsible for transporting food and ...

A team of researchers has developed a wirelessly activated device that mimics the wavelike muscular function in the esophagus and small intestine responsible for transporting food and viscous fluids ...

New research has demonstrated that a combined regimen of growth hormone and testosterone is safe, well-tolerated, and is ...

In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), abnormal cardiac function is typically preceded by a decade of skeletal muscle disease. Molecular reasons for differences in onset and progression of these muscle ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Every heart beat and step in our daily lives is dependent on the integrity of muscles and the proteins that keep them strong and free of injury as they contract and relax.

The least-squares mean difference in the Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale-Expanded change from baseline at 12 months was 1.8 points for those 2 to 12 years receiving apitegromab vs placebo.

PARIS, May 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genethon unveiled the 2-year follow-up data from its GNT0004 gene therapy clinical trial for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (GNT-016-MDYF) at the annual meeting of ...

Evrysdi, a survival motor neuron 2-directed RNA splicing modifier, both sustained and improved motor function at 24 months in children and adults with type 2 or type 3 spinal muscular atrophy, ...