I've been blogging for a few years about misophonia, an auditory/neurological disorder that I have advocated for because I and (more importantly) one of my adult children are affected. Recently, at ...

Your muscles need continuous maintenance to stay strong and healthy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) happens when there is a change in a person's genetic instructions that affects the production of ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic condition that causes increasing muscle weakness over time. While DMD currently has no cure, researchers are studying potential new treatments. When ...

Investigators based in Italy recently assessed the impacts of swallowing difficulties in a cohort of patients with DMD who presented to a single hospital with respiratory issues. The Swallowing ...

Muscle tissue damage appears when muscular dystrophy is induced in a mouse model (middle). But when researchers block the function of two genes that drive unwanted mitochondrial pore formation (right) ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder that mainly affects boys. DMD is usually diagnosed in early childhood and tends to worsen over time. DMD happens when a change (mutation) in the ...

A new mouse model mimicking the liver symptoms of myotonic dystrophy type 1 -- the most prevalent form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy -- provides insight into why patients develop fatty liver ...

Muscular dystrophy came for my vision first, although I did not know it at the time. On the second Friday morning of April 2020, I realized quite suddenly I couldn’t read out of my right eye. I could ...

Precision BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTIL), a clinical stage gene editing company utilizing its novel proprietary ARCUS® ...