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Scientists have created a new mouse model that may help researchers explain how a rare disease causes otherwise supple soft tissue and joints to turn into bone.
Discoveries May Help Scientists Understand Why Disease Turns Soft Tissue Into Bone
30/Nov/2008
Scientists have created a new mouse model that may help researchers explain how a rare disease causes otherwise supple soft tissue and joints to turn into bone.
Link to full Howard Hughes Medical Institute release.
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