As a child who suffered from a debilitating common form of muscular dystrophy, Takahiro Yoshizawa felt like he had been abandoned by those around him.The heritable disease, known as facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD for short, causes weakness in upper body skeletal muscles and progressively decreased mobility.But it was doctors telling him that he should simply accept his fate that fueled his desire to fight the genetic disorder, which he has lived with since its onset in elementary school.Now an assistant professor at Shinshu University's Research Center for Advanced Science …READ FULL ARTICLE
