Drug that may help fight Duchenne muscular dystrophy discovered

... can produce enough dystrophin for more normal muscle function. Miceli and Nelson, members of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center at UCLA, used DMD patient-specific stem cells and reprogrammed them into muscle cells and then treated them with the ...

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