Xiaorui Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, and her mentor, biochemist Qinghua Wang, view a lab sample. Their work in collaboration with Rice University biochemist Jianpeng ...

This quick alphabetical guide will help you feel more confident when talking about muscular dystrophy with your doctor and loved ones. Muscular dystrophy is the name for a group of genetic diseases ...

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 3 (LGMD D3) is a rare disease causing progressive muscle weakness, caused by point mutations in the hnRNPDL-2 protein. A member of the RNA-associated ...

Changes in the stages of myogenesis during muscle regeneration following injury coincide with changes in the phenotype and activation state of leukocytes that invade the damaged, regenerating tissue.

Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have unlocked the structural details of a protein seen as key to treating a neuromuscular disease. Their success at obtaining a structural ...

Researchers have unlocked the structural details of a protein seen as key to treating nemaline myopathy, a neuromuscular disease that causes muscle weakness. Researchers at Rice University and Baylor ...