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Stem cell discovery could be key to tough-to-fix fractures

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The ability of a newly understood stem cell originating in skeletal muscle to turn into bone could hold the key to bone healing after catastrophic fractures

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging

Thousands of kids in mental health crisis are stuck for days in hospital emergency rooms, study finds

Oregon Health & Science University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

America’s youth mental health crisis has escalated to the point that thousands of children primarily suffering from suicide-related behaviors and depression are stuck in hospital emergency rooms for three days or more, according to new research from Oregon Health & Science University.

Journal: JAMA Health Forum
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers find that missing messenger RNA fragments could be key to new immunotherapy for hard-to-treat tumors

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study identified tiny pieces of messenger RNA that are missing in pediatric high-grade glioma tumors but not in normal brain tissues. Preclinical research indicates that these missing RNA fragments can make difficult-to-treat tumors more responsive to immunotherapy.

Journal: Cell Reports
Funder: CureSearch for Children’s Cancer Foundation Acceleration Initiative, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Cancer Research Society Next Generation of Scientists Award, Children’s Brain Tumor Network, Chad Tough Foundation, Mildred L. Roeckle Endowed Chair in Pathology

NIH grant funds effort to target the root of HIV persistence

Weill Cornell Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

A multi-institutional team led by Weill Cornell Medicine has received a five-year, $14.9 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to find ways to remove latent HIV from the cells of individuals with HIV.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Teaching the immune system a new trick could one day level the organ transplant playing field

Medical University of South Carolina
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Transplanted organs are more likely to be rejected by the immune system when there is a mismatch between donor and recipient human leukocyte antigens (HLA). A Medical University of South Carolina team reports in Frontiers in Immunology that it has fitted regulatory T-cells, whose job is to suppress immune responses, with an artificial receptor and other genetic machinery that enable them to target and neutralize B-cells producing antibodies against the mismatched HLA.

Journal: Frontiers in Immunology
Funder: NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Human Islet Research Network, Diabetes Research Connection, Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Hollings Cancer Center

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