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Surgical 3-D printing: 300 prints, 16 specialties and counting

3-D printing is rapidly becoming a part of surgical planning. Since July 2013, Boston Children’s Hospital’s 3-D printing service, part …Read More

Supercharged marrow transplant: Zebrafish reveal drugs that aid engraftment

Bone marrow transplantation, a.k.a. stem cell transplantation, can offer a cure for certain cancers, blood disorders, immune deficiencies and even …Read More

Genome editing: A CRISPR way to correct disease

Technology sometimes unfolds at a slow, measured pace and sometimes at lightning speed. Right now, we are witnessing what is …Read More

Gene therapy gets in the ring with another disease

Seeing that his mother, Kadriye, wasn’t looking, Emir Seyrek got an impish grin on his face, the kind only a …Read More

cTAKES: Turning clinical notes into knowledge

My mother often says that my handwriting is so bad I should have been a doctor. Luckily, digital systems like …Read More

Restoring muscle function in a rare, devastating disease: Part 2

Part 2 of a two-part series. (Read part 1.) Back in the 1990s, rheumatologist Richard Weisbart, MD, of University of California, …Read More

Building a body, one organ chip at a time

They don’t look like much sitting in your hand. A few pieces of clear plastic, each smaller than an Altoids …Read More

Gene therapy: Two years and holding

For the Cáceres family of Argentina, it’s a joyous holiday homecoming. Agustín, who received gene therapy at 5½ months of age, journeyed …Read More

First-ever drug trial reverses some signs of aging in progeria

The children came from all over the world: 28 families from 16 countries, speaking over a dozen languages. They faced …Read More

Not all brain tumors are made the same, and that’s important

When you look at an apple, no matter what variety, on the surface you can be pretty sure it’s actually …Read More