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Automated red blood cell exchange: bridging treatment gaps in sickle cell disease care

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3,20 These crises drive high rates of emergency department use and hospital admissions, significantly disrupting education, employment and family life. 24 Hospitals can also play a role, as shown by Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

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F. William Studier receives the 2024 Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for developing technology used to produce millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines

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HPN develops and manages coordinated, patient-doctor centric, integrated health care systems that offer some of the strongest solutions for the future of health, care, and cost in the United States. He has a humble, self-effacing demeanor, and yet he is great at pushing people to make bold bets and to try to make the impossible possible."

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Women in Stem with Joanne Kanaan

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When choosing my bachelor’s degree, the choice was between pursuing a career in biology or in computer science. Biology won that battle, and I pursued a bachelor’s and master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.

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Mediating BRAF-mutant melanoma resistance

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Dr Alani also directs a clinical program at Boston Medical Center focused on patients with melanoma and other high-risk skin cancers and has been recognized as a 2024 Boston Magazine and Castle Connolly Top Doctor. Dr Alani received her M.D. degree with Honors and Distinction in Research from the University of Michigan.

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Scientists discover network of cells and genes involved in Crohn’s disease complication

Broad Institute

To better understand the biological processes at play in strictures, Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers analyzed individual cells from the intestinal tissue of Crohn’s disease patients, measuring gene activity and mapping the cells’ location in the tissue.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Regulators traditionally want to see a single, stable, well-characterized drug before giving the green light for it to be tested in a clinical trial, not dozens of different viruses; let alone ones that are best found in unappealing places like sewage , hospital waste, or bird poop. 4 But the same barriers still exist today.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

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in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. ” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” The black bars denote untreated eyes, and the gray bars denote treated eyes. From McKyton et al.