Featured Science and Innovations
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An Introduction to Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital Boston is a 396-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. |
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Lord of the Flies Neurobiologist Tom Schwarz, PhD, on why fruit flies are so helpful to scientists trying to understand the human brain. |
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Pneumococcal Vaccines for Developing Countries Having witnessed the enormous impact of a vaccine that essentially eradicated meningitis due to Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) in the United States, Dr. Richard Malley, MD, Senior Associate Physician in Medicine at Children's, set out to develop an effective pneumococcal vaccine that would be designed for use in countries in the developing world. |
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Cell Stem Cell '10 Best Paper Carla Kim, PhD, and Steve Curtis discuss the 2010 best paper from Cell Stem Cell, "Primary Tumor Genotype Is an Important Determinant in Identification of Lung Cancer Propogating Cells." |
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Avery Toole's Gift of Life The day after Avery Toole was born, an echocardiogram revealed that she had a serious and rare heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Her mother, Cheryl, is a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children's Hospital Boston knew her only chance for survival was immediate open-heart surgery. |
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Galactosemia - A family's fight against this rare orphan disease After their son Oliver was diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder galactosemia, Jamie and Erin Siminoff decided they would devote their life to helping to cure this disease and many others like it. |
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Derrick Rossi: Modified RNAs advance stem cell field Derrick Rossi's lab reports a new technique for reprogramming ordinary cells into stem cells, using modified RNAs, that is safer and much more efficient than current gene-based methods. The same technique can also transform stem cells into specialized cells and tissues that would be used to treat disease — overcoming a key obstacle in regenerative medicine. Learn how it works. |
