The laboratory of Peter Jones at the University of Massachusetts Medical School reports that Drosophila (fruit fly) lines for studying DUX4 and FRG1 overexpression are freely available worldwide from the… Read More »
Fruit fly model of FSHD is now available
Q&A with Dr. Rabi Tawil, Part 2
This is a continuation of our Q&A session with Rabi Tawil, MD, co-director of the MDA Neuromuscular Disease Clinic at the University of Rochester, New York, and lead author of… Read More »
Antisense technology muzzles DUX4
The cause of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is thought to center on DUX4, a gene that normally is silent in adult skeletal muscle. When DUX4 gets “expressed,” as happens in… Read More »
San Diego members get a stem cell tutorial
By Amy Bekier, San Diego, California On July 30, 2016, twenty-five FSHD patients, family and scientists assembled at Genea Biocells in La Jolla, California, to hear presentations by senior scientists… Read More »
FSH Society commits over $1.38 million to research in 2016
Grants approved from February 2016 cycle set new record. The FSH Society has committed $648,774 in funding to five research projects that aim to break new ground in the search… Read More »