Our eye-catching T-Shirts, totes and mugs feature the Bach 2 Bowie logo from the Ghostly Gala, our annual Los Angeles-based event to raise awareness and funds to fight FSH muscular… Read More »
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Rare Disease Day at NIH
Frank Kolakowski and Manuel Gomez, FSHD advocates extraordinaire, were on hand to represent FSH muscular dystrophy at this year’s National Institutes of Health Rare Disease Day event. Thank you!
Barbara Chin leaves an enduring legacy
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 »
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 »