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Oncology & Cancer

Leukemia treatment breakthrough for babies

Babies with leukemia could get an array of new treatments after scientists used genetic engineering to reproduce a gene defect found in the disease.

Oct 7, 2022

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Obstetrics & gynaecology

World's first stem cell treatment for spina bifida delivered during fetal surgery

Three babies have been born after receiving the world's first spina bifida treatment combining surgery with stem cells. This was made possible by a landmark clinical trial at UC Davis Health.

Oct 6, 2022

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Genetics

Disruption of MTSS2 function causes a new syndromic intellectual disability

An Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) study led by Dr. Hugo Bellen, investigator at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital and distinguished service professor at the Baylor ...

Oct 4, 2022

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Immunologic defect may leave some vulnerable to rare bacterial infection

Everyone breathes in Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) bacteria from time to time, but most people don't get sick. These bacteria, cousins of the deadly Mycobacterium tuberculosis, tend to live out their harmless little ...

Oct 3, 2022

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Pediatrics

Shattered dreams and bills in the millions: Losing a baby in America

The day after his 8-month-old baby died, Kingsley Raspe opened the mail and found he had been sent to collections for her care.

Sep 29, 2022

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Genetics

Pigs with gene defect provide new perspectives for the treatment of Alzheimer's

For decades, researchers from all over the world have been working hard to understand Alzheimer's disease. Now, a collaboration between the Department of Biomedicine and the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University ...

Sep 22, 2022

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Medical research

Aged neurons generated directly from skin more accurately model Parkinson's disease

The possibility to make virtually all cell types of the human body from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are embryonic-like cells generated from a patient's skin, in a process called reprogramming, has opened ...

Sep 22, 2022

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Medical research

Smaller eggs enhance IVF outcomes for male infertility in mice

A new approach for assisting reproduction in mice when sperm production is faulty has been demonstrated by researchers at RIKEN. It could eventually help human couples who are struggling to conceive by traditional in vitro ...

Sep 12, 2022

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Medical research

Researchers identify a potential path against inherited neurological disease

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and elsewhere have reversed the effects of several life-threatening inherited neurodegenerative ...

Sep 8, 2022

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