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Superbugs vs. Superb Vitamin
A common vitamin fights back against a public health threat. Read On
A See Change
With the latest high-tech noninvasive cardiac imaging, seeing is actually believing for cardiac patients. Read On
Putting Viruses to Work for a Good Cause
After enduring eons of suffering inflicted by viruses, humans are now employing these infective agents to do good work. That’s the mission of the new Viral Vector Core at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Regenerative Medicine Institute. Directed by Vaithi Arumugaswami, PhD, Read On
We Need This Stat
86Students from Johns Hopkins, Yale, and Cornell were among the 86 new residents who came to Cedars-Sinai last summer. Cedars-Sinai recruited residents from 46 different U.S. medical schools, from Hawaii to New York. 90In 2011, 90 percent of Cedars-Sinai liver Read On
Scientists Serve Up Disease ‘in a Dish’
Huntington’s disease has eluded medical science—no cure or treatment exists to stop its fatal progression. A brand-new tool might change that: a model that allows scientists to test potential therapies directly on human cells. Scientists at Cedars-Sinai’s Regenerative Medicine Institute Read On
Inside the Motor Molecule
It’s a rare, inherited disorder that begins in infancy or early childhood. Children usually survive but end up needing leg braces and wheelchairs as the muscles in their legs weaken and fail. It’s called spinal muscular atrophy with lower extremity Read On