Michael Ji     New Muscular Dystrophy Treatment 
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120504110554.htm


Recently scientists have finally successfully found evidence that stem cells can be used successfully to treat muscular dystrophy, a crippling muscle disorder that causes muscle weakness and the lose of muscle tissues. The new stem cell research evolves a genetically modified stem cell which has been injected by a PAX7 gene. The Pax7 gene is key to the regeneration and growth of skeleton tissue which is muscle tissue. With this genetically modified stem cell, once injected, a patient can have a easier time repairing the damaged muscle tissue, and either slow, stop, or reverse the effects of Muscular Dystrophy.

This relates to our current curriculum as we have been talking about the types of tissue within a body, skeletal being one of them. Also, in our class presentations, Muscular Dystrophy has been brought up as a source of homeostatic imbalance for the muscle system.