Month: July 2010

Positive diagnosis of any disease, common or rare, is essential an essential step and a logical precursor to successful treatment or clinical management. In the case of rare diseases like BHD Syndrome, recognising that you may have developed a symptom is made more difficult by lack of awareness of BHD Syndrome by both the general … Read more

www.BHDsyndrome.org is not a website that likes to rest on it’s laurels and to that effect it’s been regularly updated with new and original content since it’s creation, ensuring that it becomes the primary online reference site for anyone interested in BHD Syndrome. However, we’d like to get your feedback on the scientific aspect of … Read more

Last week I blogged about a newly published article in the journal Molecular Cancer (link). In it, the authors compared the growth (in vitro and in vivo) of a cell line containing a series of  wildtype or mutant FLCN transgenes; determining that wildtype FLCN suppressed xenograft tumour growth in vivo. Gene expression profiling also showed … Read more