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Mount Sinai researchers have found an important clue to a rare but serious aftereffect of COVID-19 in children, known as a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children or MIS-C.
Paper Title: Predictive Approaches for Acute Dialysis Requirement and Death in COVID-19 Journal: The Clinical Journal of the American Society of...
Researchers from the Danish psychiatry research-project iPSYCH have contributed to identify 33 new genetic variants which, as it turns out, play a role in bipolar disorder. To achieve this, they have examined DNA profiles from 413,000 people.
Date Time UC Davis MIND Institute to host inaugural stem cell, gene therapy conference This fall, the UC Davis MIND Institute will host a brand-new conference focused on the development of effective genetic and stem cell treatments for children with neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, fragile X syndrome, Rett syndrome, Dravet syndrome, Angelman syndrome and others. The inaugural Stem Cell and Gene Therapy for Neurodevelopmental Disorders Conference will be Sept. 24-25. Abstracts are currently being accepted for the inaugural Stem Cell and Gene Therapy for Neurodevelopmental Disorde...
New COVID-19 testing strategy can quicken test results for healthcare workers Fast turnaround of COVID-19 test results for healthcare workers is critical. Investigators have now developed a COVID-19 testing strategy that maximizes the proportion of negative results after a single round of testing, allowing prompt notification of results. The method also reduces the need for increasingly limited test reagents, as fewer additional tests are required. Their strategy is described in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, published by Elsevier. There is an urgent need to reduce the spread of COVID...