New molecule heralds hope for muscular dystrophy treatment

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

There's hope for patients with myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults. A new small molecule has been shown to break up the protein-RNA clusters that cause the disease in living human cells, an important first step toward developing a pharmaceutical treatment for the as-yet untreatable disease.

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