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Researchers unlock the secret to reversing age-related muscle decline
A new study from the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine sheds light on a potential breakthrough in treating muscle ...
Science Daily1d
Promising results from first prenatal therapy for spinal muscular atrophy
Scientists report results from a promising new approach to treat the rare neurodegenerative disorder. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder set in motion before ...
Nature1d
Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...
The Herald14d
A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better
researchers reported what they called the first evidence that a spine-stimulating implant already being tested for paralysis might also aid neurodegenerative diseases like spinal muscle atrophy ...
WFTV16d
A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better
Yet over the month-long pilot study, “they were getting better and better.” Spinal muscle atrophy or SMA is a genetic disease that gradually destroys motor neurons, nerve cells in the spinal ...