Ziya Isiksacan, PhD, a research fellow in the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery (CEMS) is the lead author, and Osman Berk Usta, PhD, an investigator in the CEMS at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, is the senior author of a new study published in PNAS, […]
Plain Language Summary Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at considerable risk of serious infections. Clinical providers report an ongoing challenge during an encounter with a febrile illness in SLE patients, by way of the varied types of infections mimicking lupus disease flare. Misdiagnosis of an infection for lupus flare will lead to complications […]
image: Individual muscle stem cells fuse to form multinucleated elongated muscle fibre precursors. view more Credit: Dr. Eric Metzler, scientist at MyoPax GmbH To help bring therapies for rare muscle diseases in children to market sooner, the Berlin-based start-up MyoPax, a spin-off from the Max Delbrück Center and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has now received a […]
Lifeblood has launched an urgent nationwide search for blood donors to help a South Australian mother-of-two with a blood type so rarei just one in 10,000 people may be a match. 37-year-old Amira is currently in an Adelaide hospital awaiting urgent open-heart surgery. She is expected to need more than 20 bags of blood prior […]
SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash.– Local health professionals are calling on Spokane residents to donate blood. The area is experiencing a 25% decrease in blood supply since May. According to Vitalant, a blood donation organization, there is less than a 3-day supply of most blood types. The Spokane area has been experiencing a blood shortage since the […]
A desperate appeal is underway to find a match for an Australian mother-of-two’s extremely rare blood type as she awaits urgent and life-saving open-heart surgery. Adelaide mum Amira, 37, has a blood type so rare just one in 10,000 people might be a match, a figure officials say has prompted them to look overseas, after […]
The Nutley Department of Public Affairs and Health has partnered with Vitalant Blood Services of New Jersey to conduct community blood drive Thursday, Aug. 17, from 1 to 6 p.m., at 149 Chestnut St. (the Public Affairs office). Although walk-ins are accepted, appointments are suggested and will be taken before walk-ins. All safety precautions will […]
Abstract Early detection of cancer is vital for the best chance of successful treatment, but half of all cancers are diagnosed at an advanced stage. A simple and reliable blood screening test applied routinely would therefore address a major unmet medical need. To gain insight into the value of protein biomarkers in early detection and […]
“Let’s just be frank, Maine’s a white state, has always been a super-white state. Let’s keep it the way it is,” Pohlhaus said in a May 11 interview with a journalist that Pohlhaus recorded and posted to Telegram. A photograph from April 30, 2023, shows Pohlhaus and an unidentified individual in an undisclosed location holding […]
Ziya Isiksacan, PhD, a research fellow in the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery (CEMS) is the lead author, and Osman Berk Usta, PhD, an investigator in the CEMS at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, is the senior author of a new study published in PNAS, Assessment of Stored Red Blood Cells […]