An abstract from the Hubmacher Lab was selected as a short talk for the ORS Tendon Section 2018 Conference “Discovery to Delivery in Tendon Research: Team Approaches”. Dirk will present the lab’s findings on the skeletal phenotype of a mouse model for geleophysic dysplasia in a talk titled: Absence of the extracellular matrix protein ADAMTSL2, mutated in geleophysic dysplasia, results in short tendons and reduced bone length.
“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