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Published online 7 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030630-11
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RNA injections boost muscle strength
Detergent delivers genetic medicine to mice with muscular dystrophy.
A mouse study raises hopes that injections of the DNA-like molecule RNA might one day help to treat the muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy. For the first time in a live animal, RNA therapy has produced improvements that last for up to three months1.
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