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Lab-grown muscles reveal mysteries of rare muscle diseases - EurekAlert
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have grown muscles in a lab to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B (LGMD2B). The research revealed the biological mechanisms underlying the disease and showed that a combination of existing treatments could alleviate its symptoms.
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