Tag: Muscular Dystrophy

  • Still Life with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

    In the February 20th edition of the New York Times, Reed Abelson reports a “New Tack on a Muscle Disease.”  The “new tack” is, in fact, a scaling back of ambition in muscular dystrophy (MD) research.  Since identification of various genetic mutations that cause muscular dystrophies, gene transfer has been a logical goal.  But because…