Month: June 2010

One of the biggest challenges currently facing BHD researchers is elucidating the role of FLCN’s within the cell. There’s no real way of fixing something unless you know how everything should normally fit into place, whether it be a bike, a car or even a human! A new article in the journal Molecular Cancer, by … Read more

Two scientific stories in the press have caught my eye this week. The first was the announcement that the discovery of DNA, made by the now legendary scientists James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953, has been voted the UK’s greatest scientific breakthrough of all time. This single event has proved to be the birth … Read more

The development of renal cell carcinoma, fibrofolliculomas on the face and trunk and pneumothorax are the widely accepted ‘triad’ of symptoms associated with BHD Syndrome. It’s also important to consider that other clinical manifestations are associated (or at the very least, have been noted to co-occur) with BHD Syndrome in some cases. These include a … Read more