Maine Jewish Museum hosts online art auction
Another virtual auction will benefit Partners for World Health.
Courtesy of Maine Jewish Museum
Recently reopened after a destructive fire, the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland is hosting an online art auction curated by Barridoff Galleries founders and former owners Annette and Rob Elowitch. More than 75 artists offered work for the auction, including many of Maine’s leading contemporary artists.
A preview of the artwork available in the auction is open on the Maine Jewish Museum website, and the auction will run online for two weeks, beginning at noon Sunday, through May 9. Proceeds will benefit the museum’s mission of supporting and honoring Maine’s Jewish community and building “bridges of appreciation and understanding with people of all backgrounds,” according to a press release.
Hope that a cancer drug can stop FOP, one of the rarest diseases in the world
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The ACVR1 gene. Image by By Pleiotrope (public domain via Wikipedia )
Fibrodyplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare and devastating disease in which muscles, tendons and ligaments slowly turn to bone. People with FOP gradually get ‘locked in’ their bodies, making it difficult to move and breathe. It’s caused by a mutation in a single gene, called ACVR1, which encodes for the protein kinase ALK2. The mutation causes ALK2 to become overactive, causing muscles and connective tissues to turn into bone. There is no drug to treat this disease.
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