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Treatment with the breast cancer medicine tamoxifen improved the functionality and survival of heart muscle cells in a cellular model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a study reports. The study, “Tamoxifen treatment ameliorates contractile dysfunction of Duchenne muscular dystrophy stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes on bioengineered substrates,” was published…
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The FSHD Society has joined forces with the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) to facilitate the collection of data from people with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) who were given a placebo in previous clinical trials. Provided by sponsors of FSHD trials, the data will be integrated into C-Path’s…
New data from a Phase 1/2 clinical trial of an exon-skipping gene therapy suggest it may help preserve muscle function if delivered early on to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients with exon duplications. This is the first time a clinical trial has shown production of full-length dystrophin, the protein…
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