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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.