ARPA-H Awards Columbia Researchers Nearly $39M to Develop a Living Knee Replacement columbia.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from columbia.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A team of researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia Engineering has been awarded up to a $38.95 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to build a living knee replacement from biomaterials and human stem cells, including a patient's own cells.
STEM teachers who 'want to be there' for students honored thechiefleader.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thechiefleader.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
<p>A team of researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has provided fresh insight into the dangers some common household chemicals pose to brain health. They suggest that chemicals found in a wide range of items, from furniture to hair products, may be linked to neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis and autism spectrum disorders.</p>
<p>Hispanic/Latino individuals have the highest risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in the United States. However, the basis for this difference is not well understood. Researchers recently identified a genetic variant that accounts for the increased risk of B-cell ALL in Hispanic/Latino children, and using ancient DNA, they traced the mutation all the way back to the first migrants who entered the Americas ~13,000 years ago. The findings were published in <em>Cell Genomics</em> on March 26.</p>