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As mothers of children with this disease, we have wept helplessly in recent months as friends — fellow members of a club we never asked to join — said goodbye to their sons, the babies they once held in their arms, whose dreams they held in their hearts until Duchenne robbed them of working muscles or a healthy future.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy affects 12,000 to 15,000 children and young adults in the United States and about 300,000 worldwide. It's caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, which makes a ...
The first gene therapy that can treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; it will be marketed as Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl) by Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. Children aged four to five with the disorder and confirmed gene ...
New gene correction therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 01 / 200127134851.htm
The first patient has been dosed in a clinical trial testing Sardocor's one-time gene therapy for cardiomyopathy associated with Duchenne MD.