Genetic testing identifies different muscular dystrophy types, helps plan treatment, and provides crucial info for family planning. Learn who should get tested.

The gene produces a miniature version of a protein called dystrophin, that boys with muscular dystrophy are missing or don't have enough of. The hope is this "micro-dystrophin" will at least help ...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy affects 12,000 to 15,000 children and young adults in the United States and about 300,000 worldwide. It's caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, which makes a ...

Genetic testing, often via a blood sample, can confirm a muscular dystrophy diagnosis. It can also identify specific gene mutations to help guide treatment and determine whether or not someone is ...

Gilbert Gottfried passed away at the age of 67 from a heart complication due to a type of muscular dystrophy, according to his longtime friend and publicist Glenn Schwartz.

Muscular dystrophy: Repair the muscles, not the genetic defect. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 09 / 140914160236.htm ...

Dr. Jerry Mendell, who co-invented the gene therapy, said "treating boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after seeing their natural history and decline over and over and over for the past 50 ...

A new gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has shown promise in not only slowing the progression of the disease but potentially even reversing the muscle damage.

Gene therapy has helped a 9-year-old boy regain enough muscle strength to run. If successful in others, the treatment could change the lives of thousands of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Delandistrogene Moxeparvovec Gene Therapy in Individuals With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Evidence in Focus. Neurology , 2025; 104 (11) DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000213604 Cite This Page : ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most common and most devastating muscular diseases. Now researchers have managed to use the CRISPR gene-editing tool to correct the condition in ...