"We love her little smile." A baby who was born with a rare form of dwarfism is now home after spending the first six months of her life in the hospital. Paisley Courson was born with a severe ...

Thanatophoric dysplasia (TD) is an intractable disease designated by Ministry of Welfare, Health and Labor (MWHL) of Japan, causing severe abnormalities of bones and the brain. The limb and rib bones ...

Nearly four years ago, Ashequka Lacey was faced with a decision that would change her life completely. She was 20 weeks pregnant with her second child and was about to learn the baby's gender when the ...

MOORHEAD — A fighter since day one, Esther Kuper is one of just a handful in the world with a condition called thanatophoric dysplasia, a severe skeletal disorder. Esther is also the daily bright spot ...

Thanatophoric dysplasia (TD) is an intractable disease designated by Ministry of Welfare, Health and Labor (MWHL) of Japan, causing severe abnormalities of bones and the brain. The limb and rib bones ...

ATLANTA - A Douglasville family is hoping to soon bring their baby girl home from the hospital, where she's been since the day she was born six months ago. Paisley Courson has never been outside the ...

Scientists have generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from fibroblasts of patients with thanatophoric dysplasia or achondroplasia, two types of skeletal dysplasia, and recapitulated the ...

Esther Kuper from Moorhead was born a fighter. When her parents were 24 weeks into their pregnancy, they learned she had a condition called thanatophoric dysplasia, a rare and often fatal form of ...

Many medical conditions can cause short stature, but a faulty gene encoding the protein FGFR3 is responsible for two-thirds of all forms of dwarfism in humans. FGFR3 normally controls a brake signal ...

ATLANTA - A Douglasville family is hoping to soon bring their baby girl home from the hospital, where she's been since the day she was born six months ago. Paisley Courson has never been outside the ...