If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation. When ...

Pathologic changes of the X-chromosome gene for dystrophin give rise to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and dystrophin -- which minimizes muscle fiber loss due to sarcolemma contraction damage when ...

When it comes to muscular diseases, most of us have heard of especially common ones like muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig's disease. But one of the rarest muscular disorders is also one of the most ...

Purdue animal science professor Shihuan Kuang has discovered a new subset of stem cells that researchers hope could lead to more knowledge about muscular diseases and possible treatments for disorders ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common early onset form of muscular dystrophy; many boys become wheelchair bound in their teens and die in their twenties. People with limb girdle muscular ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Intellia Therapeutics Inc. have announced an expanded research collaboration ...

A 15-year-old boy in New Market with a neuromuscular disorder received a wheelchair accessible van last week through the support of family, community and a nonprofit dedicated to assisting those with ...

A review on autoimmune neurological diseases reveals what occurs in our body when the immune system, by mistake, produces antibodies that target a protein essential ...

Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is "a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue," says Hesterlee. It occurs "when a person’s immune system is essentially attacking ...