New muscle wasting disease identified

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Evidence of a newly discovered muscle wasting disease is reported in the current issue of The Lancet. The condition is called macrophagic myofasciitis, and is suspected to be caused by a bacterium or virus similar to the type responsible for tuberculosis and leprosy. Patients' muscle tissue shows evidence of damage by immune system cells, called macrophages, which appear to congregate around connective tissue sheaths which bundle muscles together. The disease causes joint pains, weakness, fatigue and fever and has so far affected 18 patients in France.

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France: Evidence of newly discovered muscle wasting disease is reported and so far affects 18 patients in country

France, Science & research, Epilepsy & Muscle Disease R&D, Article

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Rebecca Elson

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Astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson matriculated in 1976 at the age of 16. She studied at Smith College, MA, St Andrews University, Scotland, and the University of British Columbia, Canada. She took her doctorate at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University, England. In 1986, she gained a post-doctoral research appointment to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, working on the first Hubble data. In 1989, she was the youngest astronomer to serve on a committee for the US National Academy of Sciences decennial review.

United States, Population information, Astronomers, Women astronomers, Elson, Rebecca Anne Wood

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Alan Charig

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Alan Charig was a palaeontologist who helped increase public awareness of the subject in the United Kingdom through television programs and books in the 1970s. He specialised in invertebrate palaeontology at the British Museum in London, England, to 1961 when he became curator of bird, reptile and amphibian fossils until 1987. His links with the public were forged especially through his work on dinosaurs. He enjoyed controversy and fair argument.

Paleontology, Paleontologists, Charig, Alan

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