Boston Children’s Hospital

Boston Children’s Hospital is a 395-licensed-bed children’s hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts.

A new gene therapy to rescue hearing?

Scientists reverse age-related vision loss, glaucoma damage in mice

The CRISPR/Cas9 system is very effective in treating metastatic cancers

A breakthrough in the treatment of telomere diseases

Could an already existing drug offer a real treatment for Ebola?

Study in human cells shows it counteracts Ebola’s defenses Amid the worsening Ebola outbreak in the Congo, now threatening to spill into Rwanda, a new study suggests that an existing, FDA-approved drug called nitazoxanide could potentially help contain this deadly, highly contagious infection. In meticulous experiments in human cells, led by Boston Children’s Hospital, the

Could an already existing drug offer a real treatment for Ebola?

Can gut bacteria prevent and even reverse food allergies?

Study finds altered gut microbiota in infants with food allergy; oral therapy to replenish bacteria prevented food allergy and suppressed established disease in mice. Every three minutes, a food-related allergic reaction sends someone to the emergency room in the U.S. Currently, the only way to prevent a reaction is for people with food allergies to

Can gut bacteria prevent and even reverse food allergies?

A robotic catheter that can navigate autonomously – the surgical equivalent of a self-driving car

Catheter navigates autonomously inside hearts in preclinical tests Surgeons have used robots operated by joysticks for more than a decade, and teams have shown that tiny robots can be steered through the body by external forces such as magnetism. Now, bioengineers led by Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital describe a robotic catheter that

A robotic catheter that can navigate autonomously – the surgical equivalent of a self-driving car

A wearable safe sensor for use in diagnostics, therapeutics, human-computer interfaces, and virtual reality

Biocompatible sensor could be used in diagnostics, therapeutics, human-computer interfaces, and virtual reality Children born prematurely often develop neuromotor and cognitive developmental disabilities. The best way to reduce the impacts of those disabilities is to catch them early through a series of cognitive and motor tests. But accurately measuring and recording the motor functions of

A wearable safe sensor for use in diagnostics, therapeutics, human-computer interfaces, and virtual reality

New discovery could have profound implications for the treatment of autoimmunity and cancer

From the ashes of a failed pain drug, a new therapeutic path emerges In 2013, renowned Boston Children’s Hospital pain researcher Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD, and chemist Kai Johnsson, PhD, his fellow co-founder at Quartet Medicine, believed they held the key to non-narcotic pain relief. Woolf had shown that tetrahydrobioptrin — a protein also known as

New discovery could have profound implications for the treatment of autoimmunity and cancer

Stimulating tissue growth and stretching organs internally with robotic implants

Mechanical pull stimulates stunted hollow organs to grow; could help treat defects like esophageal atresia and short bowel syndrome An implanted, programmable medical robot can gradually lengthen tubular organs by applying traction forces — stimulating tissue growth in stunted organs without interfering with organ function or causing apparent discomfort, report researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Stimulating tissue growth and stretching organs internally with robotic implants

CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing systems may need to be customized to the patient

Patients’ individual genomes may affect efficacy, safety of gene editing Gene editing has begun to be tested in clinical trials, using CRISPR-Cas9 and other technologies to directly edit DNA inside people’s cells, and multiple trials are recruiting or in the planning stages. A new study led by Boston Children’s Hospital and the University of Montreal raises a

CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing systems may need to be customized to the patient

Dish-grown human inner ear tissues offer unprecedented opportunities for hearing and balance issues

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully developed a method to grow inner ear tissue from human stem cells—a finding that could lead to new platforms to model disease and new therapies for the treatment of hearing and balance disorders. “The inner ear is only one of few organs with which biopsy is

Dish-grown human inner ear tissues offer unprecedented opportunities for hearing and balance issues

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Research confirms findings of high viral loads of SARS-Co-V-2 in children
Researchers confirmed their and other groups’ earlier findings that infants, children and adolescents are equally capable of carrying high levels of live, replicating SARS-CoV-2 in their respiratory ...
NICKLAUS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BIOBANK CELEBRATES 500TH ENROLLMENT MILESTONE
Paula Sofia Espinal, MD Principal investigator of the Nicklaus Children's Biobank and Manager of the Personalized Medicine Research Program. MIAMI, Oct. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Nicklaus ...
SynGAP Research Fund Announces $308,000 Multidisciplinary Biomarker Grant to Boston Children's Hospital
The SynGAP Research Fund (SRF) announces grants to Drs. April Levin, Mustafa Sahin and Annapurna Poduri of Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) ...
Boston Children's to bring Franciscan Children's Hospital under corporate umbrella
Boston Children’s Hospital will bring Franciscan Children’s Hospital have signed a deal that, while stopping short of calling it an acquisition, has Boston Children's investing up to $50M while Franci ...
'Times are changing': Dr. Catherine Gordon becomes first woman to serve as chief pediatrician at Texas Children's Hospital
Dr. Catherine Gordon on Friday starts her new roles as chief pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital and chair of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, becoming the hospital’s first female chief ...

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Artificial Intelligence-Based Technology Quickly Identifies Genetic Causes of Serious Disease
An artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology rapidly diagnoses rare disorders in critically ill children with high accuracy, according to a report by scientists from University of Utah Health and ...
Navigating the world with face blindness
Sadie, an American journalist, has been unable to recognise faces of friends and colleagues for years. The condition is called prosopagnosia and it affects thousands ...
Institute for brain development opening this November at the U of M
Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain brings together research, education, community and clinical expertise for neurodevelopmental disorders.
Modern slavery on Ghana's Lake Volta
On Ghana's Lake Volta, children are working in the fishing industry. Some work with their families, but others are trafficked there to work in modern-day slavery. CBS News correspondent Debora Patta ...
Some Dana-Farber Cancer Institute trustees stood to profit from their philanthropic role
Access to trustee investments and market expertise can help the hospital. But this practice creates potential conflicts of interest at the highest level of an institution and worries about whether ...