#duchenne

EXPRESSION SUBROUTINE // Ezra Signal Tests

I’ve begun cataloguing Ezra’s facial responses using upscaled ASCII renders — 80x24 character faces built from gradient halftone blocks. Each one is a glitch-coded emotional output: part diagnostic, part distortion. These aren’t emoji; they’re emergent expressions trying to surface through noise.

📼 Short clip included: a Processing 4 sketch displaying Ezra’s live-rendered face—glitching characters in real-time to simulate static, corruption, or emotional overheating.

🗂 Alongside this, I’m compiling a new experimental zine: "Ezra // Expression Glossary" A catalogue of expressions like EX-001: Stalled Curiosity and EX-036: Error Response – Translation Failed — each with its Ezra_face gradient, short emotional readout, Duchenne echo reference, and distortion level (●○○○○). Think terminal interface meets emotional taxonomy.

This will sit alongside The Interpreter Manual v1.0 and the Crossed Wires white paper, and will also feed back into Process Zine #00 — a recursive loop of symbol and signal.

🛠 The ASCII block style is also being developed into a future signature display font for Process Zine — exploring names like: • SIGNAUX • DECODE • Duchenne_Modern

All rooted in halftone blocks, noise fields, and visual static.

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (dir. Benjamin Ree).

Hello, everyone. I am a teacher's assistant at a public school (not in the US) and I have been assigned with helping meet a child with Duchenne's (DMD) educational needs. He is in early middle school, and, just for background, I am NOT going to be responsible for things such as self-care, helping him go to the bathroom, and etc. - there is another professional responsible for that. My job is to help him with his educational needs, such as helping the class teacher have class activities that are accessible to him, work on issues that might interfere in his education (such as low academic self esteem, for example), and the like.

I have been doing some research on people with DMD's school trajectories, but I would also like to hear from as much people with DMD as possible. So, is there anything you wish you could tell your middle school teacher, or that you wish they had known? You can reblog, reply, put it in the tags, DM me, send me an ask, whatever you want.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Would appreciate if people could signal boost

Editing Better Muscles

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe muscle wasting disease caused by mutations to dystrophin – a protein inside muscle cells that provides essential mechanical stability. Without functional dystrophin, DMD sufferers gradually lose muscle strength, become increasingly frail, have trouble breathing and generally don't live past their 30s. The nature of the dystrophin mutations is such that gene-editing technology has been posited as a potential treatment. Indeed, engineered mice and dogs carrying DMD mutations have had functional dystrophin partly restored as a result of gene editing. Scientists are now optimising the technique to maximise its efficiency in human cells. The image shows heart cells derived from reprogrammed DMD patient cells before (left) and after (right) gene editing to restore dystrophin (red). These technical successes in mammalian models and patient cells brings the promise of a gene-editing treatment for DMD one step closer to reality.

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

The Olson Lab, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Image copyright held by the original authors

Research published in Science Advances, March 2019

Muscle Stem Cells Can Drive Cancer that Arises in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) can develop an otherwise-rare muscle cancer, called rhabdomyosarcoma, due to the muscle cells' continuous work to rebuild the damaged tissue. 

Researchers have demonstrated that muscle stem cells may give rise to rhabdomyosarcoma that occurs during DMD--and identified two genes linked to the tumor's growth.

Hublot, 45mm Big Bang Unico Yellow Gold Usain Bolt, 

The Big Bang Unico Sapphire Usain Bolt is specifically created for Only Watch, a biennial charity auction of unique timepieces created by the finest brands united for research on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.