Possible Help In Fight Against Muscle-wasting Disease
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 16:21
in Biology & Nature
A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease. Researchers report that pentamidine might be adapted to counter genetic splicing defects in RNA that lead to type 1 myotonic dystrophy.
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