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Thu 01 Jan 2009Fresh hope on wasting disease
A new approach to the treatment of muscular dystrophy offers hope to sufferers for a reversal of the disease’s devastating effects, writes Dick Ahlstrom
RESEARCHERS AT NUI Maynooth have helped to confirm the effectiveness of a promising new treatment for muscular dystrophy. They showed that the experimental gene therapy actually reverses some of the secondary damage caused by the life-threatening disease.
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