Scientists have successfully created nerve cells from skin cells in a breakthrough that offers hope for those with a fatal muscle-wasting disease.
The transformation opens the way for treatments for spinal muscular atrophy, an inherited disease for which there is no cure.
Researchers took cells from a boy sufferer’s skin and turned them into stem cells – [...]

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Washington, December 9 (ANI):  Scientists at an American research institute claim that they have been successful in reversing the impact of a mutation in the gene coding the protein dystrophin, known to be associated with muscular dystrophy.
Dr. Lorenzo Puri and his colleagues at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research say that their study showed that [...]

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I know it is not the right time.  but i do have a question to Mr Raj thakarey
Where the Hell are you bloody son of soil idiot.
Is it all Marathi’s who are fighting against the terrorists in the heart of the so called marathi’s city
There are malayalis, tamils, northies everyone in the fight against terror.
why [...]

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