Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Purloined mechanisms of bacterial immunity can cure muscular dystrophy.
- Journal:
- Cell metabolism
- Year:
- 2014
- Authors:
- Tidball, James G & Bertoni, Carmen
- Affiliation:
- University of California · United States
Abstract
Myriad strategies have been explored to compensate for the lack of dystrophin or to skip mutations that cause the lethal disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). A new study shows that gene editing strategies used by bacteria can be applied in zygotes of a mouse model of DMD to correct the genetic defect that causes muscular dystrophy (Long et al., 2014).
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