Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare disease characterized by extensive bone growth outside of the normal skeleton that pre-empts the body's normal responses to even minor injuries.

Building muscle is hard. Stop working out for just a few days and you start to lose it. What’s more, it gets tougher and tougher just to maintain muscle as we get older. But now a number of ...

A mutation in the gene that causes fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) doesn't just cause extra bone growth but is tied to a problem in generating new muscle tissue after injury, according to ...