EXAMINE THIS REPORT ON MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY TREATMENT IN INDIA

Recently, the antibiotic gentamicin has been tested in boys with DMD, about 10% of whom have inherited a dystrophin gene by using a premature stop codon that halts the synthesis on the protein N-terminal for the dystroglycan binding region. Gentamicin suppresses chain termination, permitting some total-length dystrophin to be developed. This result