Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects millions of people worldwide. This disease prompts the ...

Genethon, a pioneer and leader in gene therapy for rare diseases, unveiled results at the MDA Conference in Orlando confirming the long-term efficacy of its GNT0004 gene therapy in Duchenne muscular ...

After a heart attack, the heart struggles to recoup and maintain energy. One third of patients develop heart failure as a ...

Scientists have developed a novel protein evolution approach dubbed optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic, multi-state, and computational functions based on ...

This study reveals abnormal iron accumulation in the muscles of patients with Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) and in mice expressing muscle-specific DUX4 (DUX4-Tg mice). Contrary to ...

Cathlyn Melo is an experienced anime writer from the Philippines with a Master in Business Administration. She was once a hospital employee before deciding to pursue her passion for anime and manga ...

Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures ...

You have probably heard that loading up on vitamin C will ward off a cold, or perhaps TikTok has influenced you to take turmeric or some other supplement to supercharge your immune system. The problem ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...

The least-squares mean difference in the Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale-Expanded change from baseline at 12 months was 1.8 points for those 2 to 12 years receiving apitegromab vs placebo.

MONDAY, Aug. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with nonambulatory type 2 or type 3 spinal muscular atrophy, apitegromab, a monoclonal antibody that inhibits myostatin activation, improves ...