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How FOP progresses

November 15th, 2009

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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 ...