Hongkui Deng, who has been working on a trial involving iPSC transplants, is observed by students. By the age of 25, Mingyu, a pseudonym being used to protect her privacy, had already undergone two liver transplants and a pancreas transplant in an effort to treat her type 1 diabetes. In her ten years living with
In 2004, Amy Proal got an infection that changed her life. “I was in my pre-med, last year of college, and totally tanked,” she says. “No one could tell me what it was, everybody said my blood work was fine — sent to a psychiatrist, the usual story.” She started reading papers from her sickbed
A cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck reduced the recurrence of melanoma.Credit: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg/Getty A personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma reduced the risk of the cancer returning in a phase III clinical trial, the companies behind the trial announced this week. The vaccine — which relies on the same mRNA technology used to develop
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began in May, although transmission had not been detected for some time. The situation has been declared a public health emergency by the WHO, which says there have been 1,460 confirmed cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 150 suspected cases and
