Tag: Diamond-Blackfan anemia
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Health
How a child made scientists think of cytokines as knobs instead of switches
A rare anemia is opening scientists up to a new way of thinking about how to adapt and employ cytokines, messenger molecules of the blood and immune system, as tools for treatment and the promise of precision medicine.
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Health
Patients’ cells provide possible treatment for blood disorder
Harvard researchers were able, for the first time, to use patients’ own cells to create cells similar to those in bone marrow, and identify potential treatments for a rare blood disorder.