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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Is the science moving here?

Publications down -9.5% as of 2026-03 provisional settling

Advocacy: Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy

Publications: 55 in 2026-03. -9.5% share of all MeSH-indexed PubMed records vs the same month last year (62 in 2025-03).
PublicationsPubMed
552026-03
-9.5% share of all MeSH-indexed PubMed records vs same month last year (62 in 2025-03) provisional settling
0.05% share

The most recent PubMed months are still being indexed. This number will change as they settle.

Counts PubMed records indexed under this disease's MeSH heading, by the month each record was published, as a share of all MeSH-indexed PubMed records that month. MeSH indexing lags about 5 months behind publication; the newest months are still filling in.
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Clinical trials: 2 in 2026-08. No percentage shown. No percentage shown: both months are under 15 records. The count is ranked in its own history instead. Clinical trials: latest count 2 is in the 66th percentile, in its typical range, versus 319 months since 2000.
Clinical trialsClinicalTrials.gov
22026-08
66th percentilein its typical range, versus 319 months since 2000low volume
Counts clinical trials newly registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, by the date each registration was first posted. Scope is global, with no country filter.
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NIH grants: 25 in 2026-08. No percentage shown. No percentage shown: fewer than 24 months on record. The count is ranked in the history held. NIH grants: latest count 25 is in the 83rd percentile, running high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
NIH grantsNIH RePORTER
252026-08
83rd percentilerunning high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026)short history
Counts NIH awards whose award notice is dated in the month, from NIH RePORTER, matched on the project text. Awards cluster at the end of the federal fiscal year. Scope is the United States. No investigator or contact data is collected.
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Patents: 244 in 2026-08. No percentage shown. No percentage shown: fewer than 24 months on record. The count is ranked in the history held. Patents: latest count 244 is in the 90th percentile, near its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
PatentsPatentsView / USPTO
2442026-08
90th percentilenear its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026)short history
Counts US pre-grant patent applications in the CPC classes mapped to this disease, by the date each application was published, as a share of all US pre-grant applications published that month. A publication reflects a filing about 18 months earlier. The CPC classes are broader than a single disease.
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Preprints: 6 in 2026-08. No percentage shown. No percentage shown: both months are under 15 records. The count is ranked in its own history instead. Preprints: latest count 6 is in the 73rd percentile, running high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
PreprintsmedRxiv / bioRxiv
62026-08
73rd percentilerunning high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026)low volume
Counts new medRxiv and bioRxiv preprints whose title or abstract matches this disease, by posting date, deduplicated across the two servers. History starts at each server's first paper, 2013 for bioRxiv and 2019 for medRxiv. Scope is global. The only author detail kept is the corresponding author's institution.
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How unusual is this?

Each signal's latest reading ranked against this disease's own history
Publications
Publications: latest count 55 is in the 83rd percentile, running high, versus 320 months since 2000.
Clinical trials
Clinical trials: latest count 2 is in the 66th percentile, in its typical range, versus 319 months since 2000.
NIH grantsprovisional
NIH grants: latest count 25 is in the 83rd percentile, running high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
Patentsprovisional
Patents: latest count 244 is in the 90th percentile, near its historical high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).
Preprintsprovisional
Preprints: latest count 6 is in the 73rd percentile, running high, versus 15-mo window (2025 to 2026) (provisional, short baseline).

Publications and Clinical trials are ranked against every month since 2000. NIH grants, Patents and Preprints are ranked against the 15 months we hold and are marked provisional until the full history is loaded.

Recent history

All five signals on a shared 2025 to 2026 window, scoped to the youngest source so each reads at a comparable scale
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Plot scoped to 2025 to 2026. True monthly spans by source: Publications 2000 to 2026 · 320 mo; Clinical trials 2000 to 2026 · 319 mo; NIH grants 2025 to 2026 · 15 mo; Patents 2025 to 2026 · 15 mo; Preprints 2025 to 2026 · 15 mo.
Publications2000 to 2026 · 320 mopeak 120/mo
Clinical trials2000 to 2026 · 319 mopeak 8/mo
NIH grants2025 to 2026 · 15 mobackfill pendingpeak 39/mo
Patents2025 to 2026 · 15 mobackfill pendingpeak 337/mo
Preprints2025 to 2026 · 15 mobackfill pendingpeak 7/mo

Plotted for 2025 to 2026. All five lines share one scale. Row labels show the full span.

Who's driving this

Top organizations behind each signal
Publications
Author institutions · 2023-07..2026-06
8% of works have an industry affiliation
  1. Inserm199
  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique91
  3. University College London86
  4. Leiden University Medical Center83
  5. Sorbonne Université77
Clinical trials
Lead sponsors · 2023-09..2026-08
0% industry-led in 2026-08
  1. Lokman Hekim UniversityGov6
  2. Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.Industry5
  3. Vanderbilt University Medical CenterAcademic/other5
  4. Avidity Biosciences, Inc.Industry3
  5. Entrada Therapeutics, Inc.Industry3
NIH grants
Funded institutions · 2025-06..2026-08
192 awards in window
  1. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAFL · $7.1M · R01/P5015
  2. RESEARCH INST NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPOH · $5.6M · P50/R0113
  3. INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLISIN · $5.6M · R01/F3010
  4. DUKE UNIVERSITYNC · $5.2M · K01/R018
  5. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONWA · $6M · P50/R016
Patents
Applicants · 2025-06..2026-08
  1. The Regents of the University of California56
  2. ThermoLife International, LLC51
  3. Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.46
  4. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.40
  5. University of Massachusetts37
Preprints
Corresponding institutions · 2025-06..2026-08
  1. Leiden University Medical Center3
  2. UQAM3
  3. University of Canterbury3
  4. CNRS UMR7216 "Epigenetique et Destin Cellulaire"2
  5. Kyoto University2
Recent trials, filings & preprints

Organizations only. No person data.

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How we map "Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy"

We used the following search terms for our data.

Publications (PubMed MeSH)"Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne"[MeSH Terms] (exploded), counted on the month's [dp] range; heading verified live 2026-09-10
Author institutions (OpenAlex)topic T10441; search 'Duchenne muscular dystrophy'
Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov)ConditionSearch: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy OR DMD
NIH grants (RePORTER)advanced_text_search: Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Patents (CPC)A61P21/00, A61K48/00, C12N15/113 (US pre-grant applications by earliest publication date, USPTO ODP)
Preprints (medRxiv)title/abstract match across medRxiv + bioRxiv: duchenne, dystrophin

Data refreshed 2026-09-11.