Derailing a Disease: Stem cells slow dogs’ muscular dystrophy
Muscle-producing stem cells injected into dogs with the equivalent of Duchenne muscular dystrophy significantly slowed the disease’s progression, researchers report.
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In people who have the incurable disease, abbreviated as DMD, muscles rapidly degenerate, and patients typically die in their late teens or early adulthood. Although steroid injections and other therapies can ease some of the disease’s symptoms, no treatment slows DMD’s progression.