Seattle Children’s Cancer Patient Presents “Haunting: A Head” – A Halloween Video

10-year-old Jenna Gibson, a Maple Valley, Wash. resident, has been a patient at Seattle Children’s since she was initially diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia earlier this year. While staying at the hospital’s cancer care inpatient unit recently, she had the idea to create for her friends and family a video entitled: “Haunting: A Head” – […]

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Dr. Dave Rawlings, Dr. Andy Scharenberg (right)

Gene Repair Breakthrough Led by Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Imagine a prowler casing a neighborhood, looking for a way into a home. That’s essentially what HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, does:  It moves through the bloodstream trying to gain entry to T-cells — the primary warrior of the immune system. A special receptor on the T-cell’s surface (called CCR5) is the open door it […]

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Preventing Preterm Birth Initiative New Projects Announced

Projects seek to undercover how the following conditions lead to preterm birth, low birth weight and stillbirth: Malaria infections of the placenta Infections of the female reproductive tract Disruption of the normal bacteria and other micro-organisms of the lower female genital tract Body’s receptors for progestin-based therapies Infections that cause inflammation in the uterus Dr. […]

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