A major impediment to improving the treatment of concussion is our current inability to identify patients that will experience persistent problems after the injury. Recently, brain-derived exosomes, which cross the blood-brain barrier and circulate following injury, have shown great potential ...
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People with lupus, an autoimmune disease, suffer from fatigue, joint pain and swelling and also have a markedly increased risk of developing osteoporosis. Clinical trials have shown that receiving a transplant of mesenchymal stem cells can greatly improve the condition ...
Read More »Stressed Dads Affect Offspring Brain Development Through Sperm MicroRNA
More and more, scientists have realized that DNA is not the only way that a parent can pass on traits to their offspring. Events experienced by a parent over a lifetime can also have an impact. Now University of Pennsylvania ...
Read More »Research Specialist – organ-specific exosome profiles from transplant recipient patients
Research Specialist A – UPENN – Perelman School of Medicine Duties The Research Specialist will be involved with the study of Molecular biology and donor organ-specific exosome profiles from transplant recipient patients’ blood/bodily fluids which can serve as a novel, ...
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