Unknown Prevalence, Partial Penetrance: Lots to Learn About Laing Distal Myopathy
Laing(-like) distal myopathies are caused by mutations in the myosin gene MYH7. Patients present with clinically varied phenotypes and...
Melissa Keenan earned her B.S. in Molecular Biology from UC San Diego (cum laude) and her Ph.D. in Genetics and Genomics from Duke University with certificates in Cell and Molecular Biology and College Teaching. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Ionis Pharmaceuticals before stepping away from the bench to support her family at home. Melissa now balances watching her kids by day and consulting as a science writer and editor by night (and sometimes naptime). An enthusiastic molecular biologist at heart, communicating science effectively is a central priority to her as a scientist and a person.