Friends With FOP

There are lots of strange and puzzling things about Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.  One of those odd features is that FOP isn't happening all the time, 24 hours per day from a child's birth.  Instead, it waits until a certain point in the child's life, becomes symptomatic and then proceeds after that in fits and starts.  This week, scientists announced a newly reported study which sheds some light on this subject: http://insciences.org/articles.php?user=insciences&tag=Fibrodysplasia%20ossificans%20progressiva  Unsurprisingly, the researchers from the UPenn "FOP Lab" spearheaded the effort, and they collaborated with scientists from Japan and Germany.  The study doesn't explain everything, but is a good start to ...