Repairing muscle from the cell up

A stem cell transplant that fixes defective muscle in mice could someday become a treatment for muscular dystrophy

July 10, 2008 at 2:33 pm - More than 2 years ago

It may one day be possible to use cell transplants to treat muscular dystrophy.

A new study used skeletal muscle stem cells to rebuild brawn in mice with faulty muscle-making genes, researchers report in the July 11 Cell.

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