June 2006 - Muscle Info Centre
| Elite Japan lab throws cash at better bots - (Digital World Tokyo - Tokyo,Japan) Japan's elite AIST research labs launch physical service bots that can help muscular dystrophy patients … June 2006
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| Student's petition on muscular dystrophy - (This is Swindon - Swindon,Wiltshire,UK) RESEARCH student Mike Gibson is to meet North Swindon MP Michael Wills after ... a petition to Downing Street calling for more cash for muscular dystrophy treatment ... June 2006
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| Celebrity activists put star power to good use - (USA Today - USA) ... J. Fox, who started his foundation for Parkinson's research after announcing ... troops with the USO; Jerry Lewis, whose Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon is ... June 2006
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| Paralyzed rats walk in stem cell study - (Baltimore Sun - United States) ... organizations, including the National Institutes of Health and the Muscular Dystrophy Association,. ... He said the speed at which his research progresses would in ... June 2006
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| Petition demands more help for Scots with muscle wasting disease - (Scotland Today - Glasgow,Scotland,UK) ... for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Eileen, whose two grandsons suffer from the condition, will join other families in a demand for more funding for research and ... June 2006
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| Helping families thrive through genetics - (Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA) ... Hoffman estimates he and his colleagues have managed to leverage between $40 million and $50 million for muscular dystrophy research. ... June 2006
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| Jerry Lewis back home from hospital - (Reuters - USA) ... Lewis remains on medication for a "mild case" of pneumonia but has kept busy preparing for the annual benefit he hosts for muscular dystrophy research in early ... June 2006
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| New Genetic Screening Test Developed - (Playfuls.com - Targu Mures,Romania) ... of diseases that usually afflict only boys, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and hemophilia. Professor Peter Braude, who supervised the research team, said ... June 2006
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| Stem Cell Therapy - (Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India) ... Research is now being conducted on both adult and embryonic stem cells to determine ... year old with cerebral palsy, a 21 year old with muscular dystrophy and a ... June 2006
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| Ethical row erupts over hospital's 'designer babies' bid - (Daily Mail - UK - UK) Therefore with the agreement of the research team, it removed autism from ... disorders that only affect males, such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and haemophilia June 2006
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| New embryo test to screen for 6,000 diseases - (Guardian Unlimited - UK) A fertility expert at Hammersmith hospital, London, said the research would give ... 13 when her brother Vaun died of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, an inherited June 2006
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| Embryo screening set to take giant step in battling hereditary ... - (Times Online - UK) Professor Peter Braude, who supervised the research team, said that the test ... a rare cystic fibrosis gene, to carry the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene June 2006
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| Runners raise £25k to beat muscle disease - (Hexham Courant - Lake District, United Kingdom) ... Blaydon Race – who look set to raise £25,000 for research into a ... son Sam suffers from the muscle-wasting condition Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy June 2006
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| Actress's Holyrood plea for disease aid - (The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK) ... to back funding of research into the Duchenne mutation of the muscle-wasting condition. Representing the Parent Project UK Muscular Dystrophy charity, they ... June 2006
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| VastOx Becomes a Partner in the European Network of Excellence to ... (Oxfordshire Bioscience Network (press release) - Oxford,UK) Parent Project UK, a muscular dystrophy charity, said: "Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is ... The research at VASTox and new funding for the TREAT-NMD network ... June 2006
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