by Jewel Midelis | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
THE WORD “LAB” may suggest white coats, microscopes, and petri dishes. But for Jon Witman and the members of his lab at Brown University, the word has a completely different—and wetter—connotation. The group of 10 spends much of their time together...
by Jewel Midelis | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Researchers face a fundamental challenge as they seek to scale up human tissue regeneration from small lab samples to full-size tissues, bones, even whole organs to implant in people to treat disease or traumatic injuries: how to establish a vascular system that...
by Jewel Midelis | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
The baby who arrived in the pediatric intensive care unit one winter day was floppy and too weak to breathe without assistance, having been referred to Columbia so the family could seek the expertise of Darryl De Vivo, MD, a metabolic diseases...
by Jewel Midelis | Nov 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The honey bee is a keystone species, and without it, Jamie Ellis says, one out of every four or five bites you eat would disappear. “Twenty percent of my diet is not citrus, it’s not beef or dairy. It’s not poultry, wheat or corn,” says Ellis, the Gahan Endowed...
by Jewel Midelis | Oct 20, 2019 | URMA Resource
Operating on a tip, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher discovered a career-changing story – the tale of a group of Milwaukee-area doctors and scientists, unlikely pioneers in bringing DNA sequencing into the clinic to diagnose and...
