Sentences with phrase «called duchenne»

Greet the interviewer with a friendly manner and a natural smile, the kind that uses the muscles around the eyes called a Duchenne smile.

This year's conference is packed with events, including an exciting one day meeting called the Duchenne Patient Focused Compass Meeting.

McNally initiated the research because she wanted to understand how prednisone — which is given to treat individuals with a form of muscular dystrophy called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy — prolongs patients» ability to walk independently and stay out of a wheelchair.

Not exact matches

And Crispr - Cas9 isn't even the only type of Crispr out there: On April 12, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center announced they had successfully paired the gene - editing tool with a different kind of enzyme, called Cpf1, to correct mutations associated with the devastating muscle - wasting disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The new study, called FOR - DMD (Finding the Optimum Regimen of Corticosteroids for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy), will determine whether daily steroid treatment or an alternative regime is more effective in slowing the disease progression and managing side effects.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by mutations in a huge gene called dystrophin.

Young, a UCLA predoctoral fellow and president of a UCLA student group called Bruin Allies for Duchenne, is particularly passionate about Duchenne research because she has a cousin with the disease.

Duchenne typically occurs through one mutation in a gene called dystrophin, which makes a protein with the same name.

The go - to model for studying Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been so - called mdx mice, a mutant strain discovered in the early 1980s.

After enrolling in a class called The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, Ben is assigned as a caregiver to Trev, a stubborn teenager who is in the advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.