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The discovery opens doors to better stem cell therapies.

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles recently conducted a 30-year study of more than 300 pediatric patients who underwent the Ross procedure at CHLA to determine how a patient’s age and heart anatomy impact the surgery’s success.

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Most professional counselors enjoy their work, but nearly half say they feel poorly compensated for the important job they do, results of a survey commissioned by the American Counseling Association (ACA) show.

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A new study of entrepreneurial small businesses created to address poverty in rural Africa found that the introduction of the entrepreneurial model led to unexpected social shifts that made the small business operators a source of friction and social discontent in their communities.

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Research led by UChicago uncovers a genetic mutation that can lead to a rare form of thyroid abnormality.

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Researchers from the University of Chicago show that a drug molecule targeting RNA modifications in neuroblastoma cells suppresses tumor growth in mice.

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A practice alert from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) reinforces that it’s time to return to offering families the opportunity to be present during resuscitation and invasive procedures. In 2004, AACN was the first organization to recommend policies be developed to support family presence, marking a transformation in how families were treated during invasive procedures.

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Understanding how mucus changes, and what it changes in response to, can help diagnose illnesses and develop treatments. In APL Bioengineering, researchers develop a system to grow mucus-producing intestinal cells and study the characteristics of the mucus in different conditions.

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In APL Bioengineering, researchers used a breast cancer cell line panel and primary tumor explants from breast and cervical cancer patients to examine two different cellular contractility modes: one that generates collective tissue surface tension that keeps cell clusters compact and another, more directional, contractility that enables cells to pull themselves into the extracellular matrix.