Muscular dystrophy is caused by defects in certain genes, with type determined by the abnormal gene. In 1986, researchers discovered the gene that, when defective or flawed, causes Duchenne ...

What Is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? Muscular dystrophies are a group of diseases that make muscles weaker and less flexible over time. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and wasting. It is an X-linked recessive disorder that occurs due to changes in the DMD gene ...

Prenatal diagnostic testing can now determine whether a fetus carries a debilitating or fatal sex-linked mutation. But with such screening, why hasn't the disease allele frequency gone down ...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a rare progressive disorder. People with DMD are missing muscle-protecting protein. This is due to a fault in the gene producing dystrophin. Muscles to become ...

Robert Davidson is the first UK patient recruited to a new medical trial looking to support children with heart failure ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder that causes muscle weakness and wasting. This leads to changes in ...

The parents of a young Newry boy living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) are calling for immediate action from ...

Joshua Mercieca defied the odds after he was diagnosed with the muscle-wasting condition Duchenne muscular dystrophy at a ...

Sarepta Therapeutics has decided not to continue the development of vesleteplirsen, a follow-up to its Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) therapy Exondys 51. The drug – formerly known as SRP-5051 ...