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Biomaterials, devices, drug delivery
	Escaping boredom Using novel drug-delivery techniques to tackle a variety of medical problems.
	Left to their own devices When it comes to developing medical devices for pediatric patients, clinicians are often on their own.
	Stowaway Gastroenterology research yields a new way to deliver protein drugs that may help take the sting out of taking medication.
Cardiology
	Bypassing bypass Fixing children’s hearts while they’re still beating
	Out of sci-fi and into the OR Children's surgeon Pedro del Nido brings a robot into the operating room for a first-of-its kind operation.
Informatics
	Patterns in the chaos Bioinformatics reveals unexpected patterns
Genetics
	An ophthalmologic tour-de-force An encounter with a toddler led Elizabeth Engle, MD, to become the world's primary researcher probing the genetics of eye-movement disorders.
	Searching for strength Probing rare disorders that weaken muscle
Neuroscience and Neurology
	Autism: Putting the pieces together Children's researchers and clinicians from diverse fields are combining their expertise to try and solve the autism puzzle.
	Brainpower A 9-year-old girl single-handedly advances neuroscience research
	Deciphering dyslexia Children's researchers try to solve the mysteries of this complex condition.
	Fighting a rising tide As more premature infants survive, clinicians, patients and families are left to battle the damage to their developing brains.
	Lord of the flies The odder the fly, the more potential it has for research.
	The long road home While helping place Romanian orphans in foster homes, American researchers are learning valuable lessons about what impact deprivation has on the brain?and whether its effects can be reversed.
	Making connections Discoveries about how the brain wires itself, and new hope for neurologic disorders
	Race through a baby’s eyes Understanding how infants recognize faces
	Stopping newborn seizures New treatments target the newborn brain’s unique physiology
Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
	Back to the future Children’s stem cell researchers are rewinding cellular time
	Going to the source The new Stem Cell/Developmental Biology research program searches for answers to disease.
	The graft that keeps on giving Researcher Dario Fauza builds living patches to close holes in everything from tracheas to diaphragms.
	New policy, new prospects What the loosening of embryonic stem cell funding will mean
Cancer and Angiogenesis
	Crazy ideas Three researchers who took on the unconventional and the infamous
	A dipstick test for cancer? Researcher Marsha Moses has found a way to diagnose cancer using urine samples
	Dr. Folkman’s progeny Where the field of angiogenesis goes from here
	Killing the queen Curbing cancer by going after stem cells
	Rising star From miracle drug to disappointment and back again. The strange-but-true story of endostatin.
Immunology
	Inflammation: The good, the bad and the therapeutic Neuroimmunology and ALS
	When food turns toxic Understanding?and reversing? the rise in food allergies.
Orthopedics
	Bones in the balance Children's seeks causes and cures for pediatric osteoporosis.
	Targeting ACL injury Surgeon Martha Murray is working on a safer, less-invasive repair for ACL tears.
Transplant Research
	Teaching Tolerance Lizzie Stidsen received a transplant from her father but her journey is just beginning.
More
	The mechanical cell Researcher Don Ingber looks to art and architecture for inspiration on explaining disease.
	Research in hard times Where some see crisis, others see opportunity
	Research Central A day in the life of the Clinical and Translational Study Unit
	Stopping rotavirus Rotavirus kills hundreds of thousands each year. Children's researcher Phil Dormitzer is trying to stop the disease in its tracks.