GlycoNOE, a non-invasive form of MRI, detected glycogen accumulation in the muscles of a Pompe disease mouse model, demonstrating its potential as a noninvasive tool to directly assess disease severity and treatment response in patients, according to a study. The approach “holds great potential to facilitate pre-clinical and clinical studies…

Dyne Therapeutics has unveiled promising preclinical data for its enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) FORCE-GAA — part of the company’s propriety FORCE platform — designed to treat Pompe disease. The novel therapy has demonstrated the potential to deliver the treatment directly to skeletal and heart muscles, as well…

A number of enzymes involved in synthesizing glycogen – the molecule that accumulates to toxic levels in Pompe disease – are elevated in a mouse model of the disease and these metabolic changes may contribute to the disease’s progression, a study found. In fact, the buildup of these proteins…

A small study in the U.K. is evaluating a noninvasive MRI-based tool that could potentially detect late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) without the need for invasive muscle biopsies. This specialized muscle MRI also would monitor glycogen buildup — a hallmark of the condition — in muscles over time. The…

Newly developed nerve cells derived from patients could be used as a model to study neurological involvement in Pompe disease and test potential therapies, a study reports. Notably, data from these models suggested that a combination of two molecules, which was previously shown to have beneficial effects in models of…