We at the FSH Society were deeply moved and inspired to receive yesterday a magnificent bequest of $50,000 from the Barbara A. Chin Trust. This gift will enable the Society… Read More »
Barbara Chin leaves an enduring legacy
Promising FSHD mouse model from Harper lab
Video caption: These mice are siblings and genetically identical. In the one on the right, we turned DUX4 “on”, while in the one on the left, the DUX4 gene remained… Read More »
A tunable FSHD-like DUX4 mouse model
by Peter Jones, PhD, and Takako Jones, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno The aberrant expression of the DUX4 primate retrotransposon is the key mediator of all forms of FSHD. Thus,… Read More »
Sacramento meeting report
About 12 members of the Sacramento FSH Society Support Group met at Mimi’s Café on February 8th. We had a new attendee who moved from Monterey and had never met… Read More »
On patient registries: findings from our suvey
Last November, the FSH Society invited its members to participate in a survey designed to gauge what members understand about patient registries and for researchers to gain insight into what kind of… Read More »