Show SCIe Science CeM CeMIn fe fl flIn In Our Lives I WHAT'S BEING DONE I Good News I In n Research Scientists supported by bythe bythe the Muscular Dystrophy Association Association Association As As- fee Cee they now have sufficient data to inaugurate a new phase in their research While continuing continuing ing work in basic research areas investigators will place greater emphasis on applied and clinical studies In an especially significant project three support ed researchers Dr Alfred who heads the team Dr SA Shafiq and Dr Eleanor B B. McGowan McGowan of of the State University of New a RESEARCH GOES ONS ON- ON S S. S A. A Shafiq Ph D D. D and Eleanor B. B McGowan PhD Ph.D. work on regenerating muscle tissue from chicken embryo Yorks York's Downstate Down state Medical Center are working with dystrophic muscle cells taken from Crom chickens afflicted by a type of oC muscular dystrophy similar to that found Cound in hu hu- mans The research team is experimenting with chemical agents that cause the dystrophic dystrophic dystrophic cells to regenerate In a quarter century the Association has budgeted more than 60 million for Cor its worldwide research program has increased the number number number num num- ber of oC its major university university- based research clinical centers to 10 and is currently funding more than individual research research research re re- re- re search projects in the United States and abroad |