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Impact of exercise on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is a common, inherited condition that affects the nerves within…
Investigating ways to improve the efficiency of gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Prof George Dickson and his colleagues at Royal Holloway are investigating the use of gene therapy…
Optimising the efficiency of exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe, inherited condition caused by a mutation in the dystrophin…
Investigating the proteins that interact with dystrophin
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD, BMD) represent the more and less severe forms of the…
The role of extracellular matrix components in satellite cell function
Satellite cells, the stem cells of skeletal muscle, are responsible for the repair and replacement…
Researching methods which could prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial myopathies
The majority of genes are carried in the nucleus, but there are some which are carried in…
A new gene causing congenital myasthenic syndromes discovered and an effective treatment found
Prof Beeson and his colleagues at the University of Oxford studied samples of DNA from many…