Facial

Facial Weakness: A Dark Matter Detective Story – Boston Children’s Answers

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A magnifying glass, decorated with DNA, showing the face of a girl with a droopy mouth due to facial weakness.

14 families with inherited facial weakness have opened a window into genetic disorders caused by inherited mutations in ‘dark matter’ genomes. (Images: Adobe Stock / Illustration: Sebastian Stanciewicz) Elizabeth Engle, MD, has dedicated her career to researching genetic and developmental causes for eye, lid, and facial movement disorders. From common conditions like strabismus to very … Read more

Tasmanian devils face threats from rapidly evolving facial tumors

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Tasmanian devil with facial tumor

TAsmanian devil populations have declined in recent decades due to two contagious facial tumors that cause debilitating growths. Now, together with an international group of scientists and organisations, researchers from the University of Cambridge have conducted a large study on genetic sequencing published in Scienceand found that one of those tumors is evolving at an … Read more