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Gene therapy researcher Jeffrey Chamberlain (left) and Hichem Tsafaout

New gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy offers hope

Researchers have developed a novel delivery system to get reparative proteins into defective genes within muscles.

Abstract image of DNA

Genome recording makes living cells their own historians

ENGRAM chronicles signals and biological states as they occur inside cells.

Black woman clutching her stomach

Ultrasounds may not find this cancer in Black women

A common diagnostic strategy can fail to catch endometrial cancer from 4% to 11% of the time in Black patients, a study shows.

Kelly Stevens and her students in a bioengineering lab at UW Medicine

Biomaterials center funds new ideas, fights inequity

Building on a researcher network and grants to reduce disparities, University of Michigan and UW lead NIH-funded center.

A light shines on a patient's eye during an exam.

Alzheimer’s vision study improved with home tests

Research looking at the link between Alzheimer’s disease and eye problems is based on ongoing ACT study started in 1994.

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