Immune Cells Carry a Long-Lasting 'Memory' of Early-Life Pain
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Early-life injury can change how the body's pain response system develops at a genetic level, leading to a pain "memory" that can affect response to injuries occurring years later, according to a study in Cell Reports publishe…
Study Finds COVID Vaccine for Pregnant Women Safe for Newborn Infants
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Results of the largest study, to date, on the safety of newborn babies whose mothers were vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy show no increased risks for babies, and…
Study Introduces Improved Way to Grow Cells That Give Rise to Kidney's Filtration System
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Lab-grown human nephron progenitor cells. Credit: Biao Huang/Li Lab In a study published in Cell Stem Cell, USC scientists report significant progress in cultivating nephron progenitor cells (NPCs), t…
Reducing Newborn Deaths Across Africa Enters Phase 2 with $65M
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VIDEO The Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) international alliance today launches Phase 2 of its groundbreaking mission to reduce newborn mortality in sub-Saharan Africa with $65 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foun…
UChicago Medicine Among the First in the Country to Offer Newly Approved Sickle Cell Gene Therapies
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The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital will be among the first in the country to offer gene therapy for sickle cell disease in patients 12 years and older, after federal regulators approved two new treatments on December 8, 2023. Thousands of patients wit…
The Fountain of Youth is … a T Cell?
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The Takeaway CSHL scientists have found a way to reprogram T cells to fight aging. After using them to eliminate specific cells in mice, the scientists discovered they lived healthier lives and didn’t develop aging-associated conditions like obesity and diabetes. Jus…
New Cell-Based Immunotherapy Offered for Melanoma
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is one of the first centers nationwide to offer a ne…
Clinical Trial Finds Cell Therapy Improves Quality of Life in Advanced Heart Failure
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Biotherapeutics Clinical trial finds cell therapy improves quality of life in advanced heart failure December 12, 2023 Sofia Petta and Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D. ROCHESTER, Minn. — Stem cell-based therapy improved quality of life for patients with advanced h…
Review Unveils Cell-Based Sepsis Immunotherapies in China
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Imagine the human body mounting an excessively heightened reaction to an infection, causing multiple organ failures and posing a risk of death. This condition, recognized as sepsis, affects approximately 49 million individuals worldwide annually. To thus reduce the mortality rate and the global bu…
Survey of US Parents Highlights Need for More Awareness About Newborn Screening, Cystic Fibrosis
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A national survey led by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago found that parents have insufficient knowledge of newborn screening in general and of c…