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Gene breakthrough in muscular dystrophy
Scientists have discovered how to overcome the genetic defect that causes the most serious form of muscular dystrophy, it was revealed today.
Although at an early stage, the research may lead to new treatments for the fatal genetic condition.
Muscular dystrophy is a rare disease that only affects boys. About one in 3,500 children in the UK are born with the most common and severe form, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, each year. In the majority of cases people with the disorder die from lung or heart failure before they are 30.
The Medical Research Council scientists (MRCs) used a technique called antisense therapy to treat a mouse version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Small fragments of genetic code were used to skirt round the mutations in the dystrophin gene that cause the disease.
Normally, these defects stop the gene producing a protein that prevents muscle wastage. But antisense therapy made it possible for cell machinery that translates the genetic code to continue making the most important protein parts.
Unlike gene therapy, antisense does not involve inserting the corrected form of the gene into cells. Instead, it 'patches over' defects in the original gene.
Professor Terence Partridge, from the MRCs Clinical Sciences Centre, said: "Antisense therapy offers huge potential for the effective treatment of diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
However, before this therapy can be tested on humans more work must be done to improve the current method of delivering the antisense drug."
The research was reported in the online edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
