Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy now have new hope with gene therapy. And for an Illinois family, it’s a double blessing.

A Sarepta Therapeutics gene therapy that failed its confirmatory test has now converted its accelerated FDA approval into a traditional one, expanding use of the treatment to a wider group of Duchenne ...

Emma Ciafaloni, MD, FAAN, dives into the latest developments in gene therapy for muscular dystrophies, focusing on Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and discusses challenges, genetic causes, and the ...

Scientists have created a new gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) that may not only help stop the disease in DMD patients, but might also help restore their damaged muscles in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics plunged Monday after the biotech drugmaker reported a second death in connection with its gene therapy for muscular dystrophy. Sarepta reported the ...

Shares of  Regenxbio rose Monday in premarket trading after the company said its treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy delivered positive trial results, strengthening the case for a speedier ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the green light for the first gene therapy that treats a rare form of muscular dystrophy to be used in most people who have the disease and a certain ...