This week’s In the News features firearms research, stillbirths during COVID, donations to the Friedreich’s Ataxia Center of Excellence, and postdocs highlighted for diversity.
A surgeon-scientist explores exosome-mediated stem cell engraftment as a means to lessen disease severity and enhance quality of life for children with hemoglobinopathies.
Fitness tools that monitor your daily use of energy, from counting steps to tracking sleep, have exploded in popularity. Researchers are developing better noninvasive, high-resolution methods to estimate how well the fundamental source of that energy - your mitochondria - are working, and they have recently had some important successes. Mitochondria are the tiny energy factories of our cells,
Christoph Seiler, PhD, received a Foerderer Fund for Excellence award at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2015 to study this mechanism. German-born Dr. Seiler pointed out that “Foerderer,” in German, means supporter or sponsor. Its name is therefore apt, because the internal award program spurs research projects that need a bit of support to generate pilot data that can later help those projects stand out in the competitive awarding of external funds.
Revolutionizing our understanding of the genetic causes and mechanisms of hyperinsulinism, developing diagnostic tools for a precision-medicine approach to treatment, and discovering new treatment options.
