Sentences with phrase «causes progressive muscle weakness»

Using CRISPR / Cas9, the Hamon Center team was able to correct the genetic defect in a mouse model of DMD and thus prevent the development of features of the disease, which in boys causes progressive muscle weakness and degeneration, often along with breathing and heart complications.

The illness causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.

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His parents confirmed that Charlie had died in a hospice yesterday after a long battle with an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and muscle weakness.

It is characterized by the wasting of skeletal muscles and caused by progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord; the disease leads to increasing muscular weakness, atrophy and premature death due to respiratory problems.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disease that causes the degeneration of spinal cord motor neurons and leads to progressive muscle weakness, atrophy and inability to walk or sit, and breathing difficulties.

It causes progressive weakness in muscles of the face, arms, legs, and around the shoulders and chest.