Results for Shape Analysis

Researchers explore how serotonin may affect the heart’s mitral valve and potentially accelerate degenerative mitral regurgitation.

Liming Pei, PhD, studies how different organs react to energy cues and communicate with each other.

This week’s roundup features CHOP’s participation in a multi-institutional MIS-C research study — the first to provide long-term outcome data.

Researchers at CHOP are studying whether impaired sleep during adolescence has an effect on bone density.

This week “In The News,” our scientists and their groundbreaking research appear in Newsweek, Cell Reports, and Molecular Therapy.

Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center’s new large genetic database and portal is now accessible to all CHOP investigators.

Scientists have harnessed powerful data analysis tools and three-dimensional studies of genomic geography to implicate new risk genes for osteoporosis, the chronic bone-weakening condition that affects millions of people. Knowing the causative genes may later open the door to more effective treatments.

A new imaging approach could help visualize how and when the dynamic structural connections in the entire cerebral cortex take shape in early infancy.

This National Child Passenger Safety Week, look back on a powerful partnership between CHOP, State Farm Insurance, and the University of Pennsylvania that turned 20 last September.

This week’s stories span discovery (of a potential treatment for rare blood diseases), inspiration (from a mother who transformed grief over her daughter’s terminal disease into a foundation helping other families), and finding practical clinical insight (to distinguish a serious knee condition from a drug-treatable infection with similar symptoms).