Young HSCs reverse ageing effects when transplanted into old mice
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Boston Children’s Hospital
Center for pediatric health care
Boston Children’s Hospital is dedicated to improving and advancing the health and well-being of children around the world through its life-changing work in clinical care, biomedical research, medical education and community engagement. Boston Children's is ranked the number one pediatric hospital in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. It is home to the world's largest pediatric research enterprise, and it is the leading recipient of pediatric research funding from the National Institutes of Health. It is the primary pediatric teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School. Boston Children’s treats more children with rare diseases and complex conditions than any other hospital.
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Details last updated 17-Oct-2019
Boston Children’s Hospital News
Low-carb diet is better than low-fat diet to lower the risk of heart disease
EurekAlert! - 28-Sep-2021Restricting carbs improve heart health by reducing bad cholesterol and insulin resistance
Genes of some species might hold the key to human longevity
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) - 19-Oct-2020Studying organisms that live long will help identify crucial genes associated with ageing
Human stem cells successfully produced hair in mice
Nature - 03-Jun-2020Major step towards treating baldness, skin diseases, also wounds and scarring
Discovery of molecules allowing telomere restoration
New Atlas - 26-Apr-2020Demonstrated in mice, study paves way for treating ageing-related diseases
Drug invented for a girl with Batten disease
BBC - 12-Oct-2019Doctors from Boston sequenced in detail whole genome of Mila and found the disease-causing mutation
Doctors Repair Infants’ Damaged Hearts With Mitochondria
Futurism - 10-Jul-2018Procedure transplants mitochondria into infant’s muscle cells to prevent heart disease
Artificial robotic heart muscles keep pigs alive after heart attacks
WIRED - 18-Jan-2017Existing mechanical pumps come with significant health risks including infections and causing blo...
Swarm of dumb robots can penetrate tissue
IEEE Spectrum - 25-Jun-2015Magnetic robots manoeuvred in MRI machine to form Gauss gun. Big at the moment but technology onl...
Boston Children’s Hospital is also referenced in the following:
Loren Walensky
Pediatric oncologist, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Principal Investigator at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Children’s Hospital Boston, Director of the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program
People at Boston Children’s Hospital
Stephen Treaster
Postdoc at Boston's Children Hospital unraveling mechanisms of longevity with phylogenomics
