Congratulations to Stelios and Zerina for their contributions to a manuscript just accepted in Matrix Biology that sheds some light on the potential role of ADAMTS17 in Weill-Marchesani syndrome. This manuscript is the result of a truly enjoyable international collaboration with our colleagues in Belgium and Canada.
“Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature by the careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease. For it has been found in almost all things, that what they contain of useful or of applicable nature, is hardly perceived unless we are deprived of them, or they become deranged in some way.”
-William Harvey (Physician-Scientist), 1578-1657