Patients born with a disease called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) are locked into this fate, often becoming severely disabled before adulthood. (scientificamerican.com)
Some rare diseases pull researchers in and don't let them go, and the unusual bone condition called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) has long had its hooks in Aris Economides. (sciencemag.org)
About 850 people worldwide have been diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP) in the last five decades. (pennmedicine.org)