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The Cardiovascular & Bioengineering Research Group
Click here
to get to the common website of the Cardiovascular & Bioengineering Research Group
at 65 Landsdowne St that includes the laboratories of Richard Lee, MD, Hayden Huang, PhD, and Jan Lammerding, PhD.
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Background on Lamins and the Nuclear Envelope
Click here
for a brief description on lamin A/C from Wikipedia. The website also contains other
links to some of the diseases associated with lamin A/C.
Click here
for more information on the nuclear envelope.
The Leiden Muscular Dystrophy pages
contain a lot of details on the LMNA gene encoding lamins A and C. Additional information can be found at the
NCBI website.
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NBC Dateline Special on Progeria
Click here
to see a Dateline special on Seth Cook, a progeria patient, that aired on NBC on July 2, 2006.
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Foundations Contributing to Research on Nuclear Envelope diseases
The following groups have made significant contributions to research on several of the diseases associated with mutations in nuclear envelope proteins.
The Progeria Research Foundation has spurred enormous progress in finding the gene causing progeria and is continuing its search for a cure.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association
funds a wide variety of research addressing muscular dystrophies, including Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and limb-girlde muscular dystrophy that are caused by mutations in the genes encoding lamin A/C or emerin.
The American Heart Association
has been providing post-doctoral fellowships and a Scientist Development grant to the Lammerding lab.
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News and Weather for Boston and Cambridge
The Boston.com website
provides the latest news from Boston.
You can find the current weather forecast for Cambridge at the Wunderground.com website.
