Jesse's Journey Foundation

Jesse’s Journey is applauding Wednesday’s announcement the federal government will help fund a stem cell therapy development facility in Toronto. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government will provide $20 million to the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine. Trudeau said supporting the facility will have significant benefits for innovative, health-related technology in Canada and […]

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. failed to win U.S. approval for a drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a deadly genetic disease that usually affects young boys. The Food and Drug Administration rejected the once-a-week injection known as Kyndrisa, according to a statement from the company Thursday. A panel of outside advisers voted in November that the medication, known chemically […]

The federal government will provide $20 million to the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine to help establish a stem-cell therapy development facility in Toronto. The Centre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies will be the first such facility in the world to use a collaborative approach between research institutions and industry to solve cell therapy […]

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., Jan. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today announced the completion of its rolling submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Translarna™ (ataluren), an oral, first-in-class, protein restoration therapy for the treatment of nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy (nmDMD).  PTC has also […]

A drug commonly used to treat leukaemia is showing potential as a treatment that could slow the progression of the muscle-wasting condition, Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy most commonly affects boys, with around 2,400 people in the UK affected by the condition. There is currently no cure and most patients are not expected to […]

DALLAS – Dec. 31, 2015 – Using a new gene-editing technique, a team of scientists from UT Southwestern Medical Center stopped progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in young mice. If efficiently and safely scaled up in DMD patients, this technique could lead to one of the first successful genome editing-based treatments for this fatal […]