Charity News from Sunday, Jul. 6, 2003Protein Deficiency Linked to Lou Gehrig's Disease, MDA Researchers FindMuscular Dystrophy Association | A European study supported by the MDA shows that genetic deficiencies of a growth factor protein increase the risk of developing the deadly neuromuscular disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and that the same protein might be used to treat it. Researchers Remove Gene Defect in Common Form of Muscular Dystrophy Muscular Dystrophy Association | A laboratory-engineered compound that snips out a defect in the gene for the muscle protein dystrophin has been successfully used to treat a disease resembling Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mice, the Muscular Dystrophy Association announced today.
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