[…] Tuesday, please consider supporting efforts to make a brighter future for all who live with FSHD by taking these two simple steps! Make a donation here. Every gift donated this […]
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2021 Best Poster Award goes to Alec DeSimone
[…] virtually on June 24-25. The title of his poster “A live-cell drug screening platform for FSHD therapeutics,” co-authored with Drs. Angela Lek and Monkol Lek, describes a cost-effective, higher throughput, […]
Notes on spinal and scapular surgery
[…] manifest symptoms from an early age. Drs. Lark and Hubbard note that people with early-onset FSHD can develop rapid weakening of the hip girdle muscles. It is this hip girdle […]
Webinar with Dr. Rabi Tawil
[…] summary: Evaluation, diagnosis, and management of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy,” the first such care guideline for FSHD, which was published this past July in the journal Neurology. You can download and […]
Watch DUX4 switch on in facioscapulohumeral MD muscle cells
[…] (ntGFP) engineered to cause cell nuclei to glow green when the DUX4 protein is expressed in FSHD muscle cells. As green nuclei cluster and intensify in color, you can see the […]