Protein found in venom could treat muscular dystrophy

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

When a stockbroker from the Buffalo suburbs discovered that his grandson had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, he turned to medical researchers for help in developing a treatment. He found a promising new therapy involving spider venom. The therapy is not a cure. But if it works in humans, it could extend lives for years -- maybe even decades.

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