Combined therapy could repair and prevent damage in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, study suggests
Saturday, August 10, 2013 - 06:30
in Health & Medicine
New research on two promising gene therapies suggests that combining them into one treatment not only repairs muscle damage caused by Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but also prevents future injury from the muscle-wasting disease. The work is the first to look at the approach in aged mice, a key step toward clinical trials in patients.