How An HIV Drug Is Now Helping People With Genetic Diseases

An HIV-derived nucleoside therapy now treats rare genetic diseases by restoring mitochondrial DNA and improving muscle ...

'Something inside is tightening': How a doctor cracked the case of a rare disease in a 42-year-old man

A rare condition called Eosinophilic Fasciitis caused a 42-year-old engineer severe pain and stiffness. Doctors identified ...
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Lab-grown muscles reveal mysteries of rare muscle diseases

Biomedical engineers have grown muscles in a lab to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B ...
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Disrupting Mechanical Transmission by Titin Protein Precipitates Muscle Diseases

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative method known as TEVs-TTN, for studying the specific mechanical functions of proteins through their ...
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Satellos Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation from the U.S. FDA for SAT-3247 for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Satellos Bioscience Inc. (“Satellos” or the “Company”) (TSX: MSCL, OTCQB: MSCLF), a public biotech company developing new small molecule therapeutic approaches to improve the ...
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Satellos Announces Upcoming Presentation at the 2025 Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinical & Scientific Conference

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Satellos Bioscience Inc. (TSX: MSCL, OTCQB: MSCLF) (“Satellos” or the “Company”), a public biotech company developing new small molecule therapeutic approaches to improve ...

Autoimmune diseases and what happens when the body attacks itself

Understanding what autoimmune diseases are, what triggers them and how they’re treated can be a powerful first step toward ...