How genetics shape blood proteins during development from childhood to adolescence
Blood proteins serve as crucial indicators of health and disease risk throughout development. Now, researchers at the ...
Advocating for a child with a rare disorder brings heartbreak. And then there’s the joy.
When a child might not be — when something is wrong, yet no one seems to know what it is — the anxiety is soul-crushing. And ...
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Creating the World’s First CRISPR Medicine, for Sickle Cell Disease
In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...
Nature2d
Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...
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New research shows neonatal HSV infections may lead to long-term cognitive impairment
Very early exposure to even a very small dose of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in infant mice can lead to cognitive decline later in life, according to new findings. This is significant because of ...
Neonatal herpes simplex virus infections may lead to long-term cognitive impairment, research shows
Very early exposure to even a very small dose of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in infant mice can lead to cognitive decline later in life, according to findings from a new Dartmouth-led study, in ...