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New investigations, initiated by research workers at CIC bioGUNE and led by Dr. Aitor Hierro, have opened possibilities for making progress in the knowledge and prediction of neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), according to the journal of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America…

Part support group, part fundraising effort, this group seeks to fuel ALS research while offering comfort to those who are coping with the disease.

Study finds that children and adults with SMA who can’t walk but otherwise have good motor function are at risk for becoming overweight.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a technique they believe will help scientists overcome a major hurdle to the use of adult stem cells for treating muscular dystrophy and other muscle-wasting disorders that accompany aging or disease: They’ve found that growing muscle stem cells on a specially developed synthetic matrix that mimics the ela…

AVI BioPharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVII), a developer of RNA-based therapeutics, announced that following review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the Company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for AVI-4658 is open…