March 3: Historical Fiction panel & signing for
FOP at Word Bookstore in Jersey City, NJ (along with Lauren Willig, Marci Jefferson, Jennifer Robson, Jessica Brockmole)
March 2: Historical Fiction panel & signing for
FOP at RJ Julia, Madison, CT (along with Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Marci Jefferson, Jennifer Robson, Jessica Brockmole)
«We knew injury was a part of it, but we didn't know what injury did to change» the body so that bone growth resulted, says Paul Yu, who studies
FOP at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is a co-author on the new paper.
Not exact matches
Leading sugar and health expert group Action on Sugar, based
at Queen Mary University of London, is calling for colour - coded «traffic light» front of pack (
FOP) 1 nutrition labelling to be introduced across all food and drink products after exposing many perceived «healthy» cereal brands who have failed to include the Department of Health endorsed colour - coded labelling -LSB-...]
Researchers
at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, took advantage of this strategy by reprogramming
FOP patient cells and then seeking candidate molecules that could explain how the disease initiates.
That international study is being done
at four sites, including Penn Medicine, and is testing whether palovarotene is safe and effective in children and adults experiencing
FOP flare - ups.
When she discovered
FOP and the work of Frederick Kaplan, a professor of orthopedic surgery
at Penn, she realized she had found a puzzle that was «a disease of misregulated cell differentiation,» she says.
All of these patients are pretty similar in the way their
FOP develops — in terms of malformation of the big toe that we see
at birth.
Scientists from the Center for Research in
FOP and Related Disorders
at the Perelman School of Medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues examined the critical role of tissue hypoxia, or oxygen starvation, in the induction and amplification of
FOP lesions, also called flare - ups.
Another clue came from the work of Frederick Kaplan
at the University of Pennsylvania, an orthopedic surgeon and
FOP pioneer who has been studying the disease for years, and who helped lead the team that found the
FOP gene.
Economides first learned about
FOP back in 1996, just after finishing a postdoctoral fellowship
at Regeneron, then a young biotech company focused on neurological disorders.
For example,
FOP research began almost 30 years ago
at Penn..
Another battle far larger than the intra-publishing panty raids that bring out our wags and
fops is this problem of a major population sector that not only doesn't like paying for content but is also very good
at avoiding it.
Of course, we also need volunteers to help staff our
FOP events, as well the
FOP booth
at community events like Fiesta Hermosa.