With a deft snip, potential treatment emerges for deadly childhood Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 20:00
in Health & Medicine
Using cells from patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disease that affects one in 5,000 boys, UCLA scientists have devised a strategy for creating "corrected" stem cells that could restore tissue under attack by the deadly muscle-wasting disorder. A gene-editing procedure described...