Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an ultra-rare genetic disorder that turns soft tissue to bone. A recently completed multi-year study will finally provide doctors the information ...

Additional bone growth, or heterotopic ossification, is visible around the upper arms and back on a skeleton of a patient with FOP Credit: PR JEAN-DENIS LAREDO, ISM / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Early ...

These cytokines were loaded into this patch of matrix 2 to 5 years earlier by another class of cells of a previous BMU whose task is to form new bone, osteoblasts (Figure 1). It has been generally ...

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