Frederick Kaplan News Today

An ultra-rare disorder that causes muscle, tendons, and ligaments to irreversibly turn to bone, slowly forming a 'second skeleton' on top of the first, could soon be treatable at an earlier age than ever before.

There has been an ongoing, broader discussion in the museum world around displaying human remains, which has brought up some difficult questions many institutions are grappling with.

A gene mutation causes Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva patients to grow bone where there is normally muscle or joint