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Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

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A study of NCAA Division I football players revealed persistent atrophy in the quadriceps and gastrocnemius muscles 2 years ...

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“Reductions in lean mass and muscle wasting are significant unmet needs in the GLP-1 space, and our early data suggests that we may have a powerful tool in achieving more metabolically healthy ...

Villareal, a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has told the National Institute of Ageing the “most important component” of training to stall those effects. According to the ...

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Just like the proteins in our muscles, which convert chemical energy into power to allow us to perform daily tasks, these tiny rotary motors use chemical energy to generate force, store energy ...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the cranium showed hot cross bun sign (Figure 1A) and cerebellar atrophy (Figure 1B ... and the remaining cranial nerve examination proved negative. The muscle ...

Our goal is to confirm the safety of our drug candidate to then rapidly move into a Phase II proof-of-concept study, to demonstrate transferrin’s ability to protect retinal cells from atrophy ...