News tagged with severe combined immune deficiency
SCID Kids Leading Healthy, Normal Lives 25 Years After 'Bubble Boy'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention the words "bubble boy" and many will recall David Vetter, the kid with big eyes and a thick thatch of dark hair who died 25 years ago after spending almost the entire 12 years of his life in a germ-free, ...
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Oct 12, 2009 |
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Prototype drug targets metabolism, halts disease that limits bone marrow transplantation
(PhysOrg.com) -- A prototype drug already shown to hold promise for treating autoimmune disorders like lupus, arthritis and psoriasis halts established graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in mouse models of bone marrow transplantation, ...
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Jan 26, 2011 |
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Radical treatment for leukemia under way
Humanized mouse models help clarify the origins of leukemia and the cellular processes that lead to its recurrence, providing hope for a cure for this intractable blood disease.
Jan 17, 2011 |
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Study finds children with autism have mitochondrial dysfunction
Children with autism are far more likely to have deficits in their ability to produce cellular energy than are typically developing children, a new study by researchers at UC Davis has found. The study, published today in ...
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Nov 30, 2010 |
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Study shows how variations of same protein affect immune response
(PhysOrg.com) -- How a T cell decides to make protein X, Y, or Z can have profound effects for fighting foreign invaders or staving off dire autoimmune reactions. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania ...
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Oct 15, 2010 |
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Study points to increased risk for lupus in men
Lupus Research Institute-funded researcher Betty Tsao, PhD, at the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that humans -- males in particular -- with a variant form of the immune receptor gene "Toll Like Receptor ...
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Sep 02, 2010 |
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More than half the world's population gets insufficient vitamin D
Vitamin D surfaces as a news topic every few months. How much daily vitamin D should a person get? Is it possible to have too much of it? Is exposure to the sun, which is the body's natural way of producing vitamin D, ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Dying: Millions of women in childbirth, newborns and young children
Widespread global use of known and proven maternal and childcare techniques, practices, and therapies could save the lives of millions of women, newborns and children each year, according to a new analysis ...
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Fetal surgery continues to advance
Repairing birth defects in the womb. Inserting a tiny laser into the mother's uterus to seal off an abnormal blood flow and save fetal twins. Advancing the science that may allow doctors to deliver cells or DNA to treat sickle ...
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Feb 16, 2010 |
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Ethics debate over blood from newborn safety tests
(AP) -- A critical safety net for babies - that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn - is facing an ethics attack.
Feb 08, 2010 |
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Hunting newborn tests for super-rare gene diseases
(AP) -- At his first birthday, John Klor couldn't sit up on his own. A few months later, he was cruising like any healthy toddler - thanks to a special diet that's treating the North Carolina boy's mysterious ...
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Jan 04, 2010 |
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