The lab of Chris Walsh of Boston Children’s and the The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Discovery Center for Human Brain Evolution, has found that a third or more of the fastest-evolving regions of the human genome (known as human accelerated regions or HARs) are active during brain development, and that mutations in HARs contribute to autism among families with shared ancestry. Walsh, Ryan Doan, Ph.D., DABMGG, FACMG Taehwan Shin, Janet Song and other colleagues now extend the HARS–autism link in a larger cohort of smaller families with more diverse ancestry, mainly from the U.S. They also find that mutations in non-coding regions of the genome contribute to autism risk as well. 👇
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Boston Children's Hospital is a 404-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Boston Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our services can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation and in some situations we also treat adults.) We have approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and our 200+ specialized clinical programs schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year, the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 214,000 radiological examinations. Our team of physicians and nurses has been recognized by a number of independent organizations for overall excellence, and we're proud to share some notable examples with you here.
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Kudos to the research teams for advancing the science around progeria! Boston Children’s is proud to have been part of the #progeria story. Starting in 2007, we hosted a clinical trial of a drug called lonafarnib, welcoming children with progeria from all over the world – three-quarters of all those known at the time. Lonafarnib began as an experimental cancer drug and targets the same molecule as the gene editing therapy (lamin A). The trial showed that it extends patients’ lives by an average of 2.5 years, and many patients had improved heart health and weight gain. The FDA approved lonafarnib in 2020 under the name of Zokinvy. More of this history here: http://ms.spr.ly/6046lX9XE
A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure
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How far did families need to travel to get their children COVID-19 shots? These maps, with July 2022 data from > 27,000 vaccination sites, tell part of the story. Rural children, especially those under 5, often had to travel 2+ hours to get vaccinated. Overall, rural, uninsured, white, and Native American populations had longer travel times than urban, insured, Hispanic, Black, and Asian American populations. Rohan Khazanchi, MPH et al. hope their findings will help authorities prioritize resource allocation in future outbreaks — with the help of their Vaccine Equity Planner (http://ms.spr.ly/6047lVssP). 👇
Spatial Accessibility and Uptake of Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccinations by Social Vulnerability
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Go, team! 👏 Members of our Brain Tumor Center recently attended the 21st International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (ISPNO 2024) in Philadelphia, where they shared recent research findings with colleagues from around the world. Special thanks to everyone who participated, including (pictured left to right) Nicole Ullrich, MD, PhD; Mimi Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD; Susan Chi, MD; and Aaron Yeo, MD — the latter of which served as an Education Day co-lead on the symposium’s Organizing Committee.
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We had a great time welcoming colleagues to Boston Children’s for a hands-on, immersive fetal therapy simulation during ISPD 2024. 👏 Attendees tried out our high-fidelity surgery simulators developed by our Maternal Fetal Care Center and Immersive Design Systems. Simulated procedures included fetoscopic laser for twin-twin transfusion syndrome, fetoscopic tracheal occlusion, and fetoscopic spina bifida repair. International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis http://ms.spr.ly/6043lVseT http://ms.spr.ly/6044lVsep
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An honor and a privilege, and very well deserved! Dr. Sankaran has made great strides in understanding the complexities of blood formation. As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, he’ll have the freedom to go where the science leads. He joins nine other HHMI investigators at Boston Children’s. 👏 http://ms.spr.ly/6048lVscs
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What does it take to be an Olympic athlete? Boston Children’s sports nutritionist, Laura Moretti Reece MS, RD, CSSD, LDN, helps elite athletes keep up with the intense energy demands of their sports. She spoke with CNET about how. 👇
How Olympians Eat, According to the Pros Who Fuel Them
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A force in sports medicine and a force in rowing! Dr. Kathryn (Kate) Ackerman, MD, MPH, FACSM is going to the Paris Olympics as USRowing’s team physician. Here at home, her contributions to sports medicine got major hurrahs from the American College of Sports Medicine. Let’s hear it for Dr. Ackerman, director of the Wu Tsai Female Athlete Program at Boston Children’s and recipient of a 2024 Citation Award from the ACSM! https://lnkd.in/ec9qaiXx https://lnkd.in/eNrraKzv
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Babies’ brains undergo dramatic structural and physiological changes after birth. In Nature Portfolio, Carol Wilkinson and her colleagues used EEGs to track trajectories of brain activity from ages 0-3, providing a baseline for understanding neurodevelopmental disorders. They saw age-dependent, nonlinear changes in periodic alpha and beta activity suggestive of a distinct milestone in the maturation of thalamocortical circuits, which enable complex sensory processing. 👇
Developmental trajectories of EEG aperiodic and periodic components in children 2–44 months of age - Nature Communications
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Many vaccines are only partially effective, stop working with time, or don’t work well in the very young or the very old. Through an unbiased screen of > 200,000 small molecules, Ofer Levy, MD PhD, David Dowling, Ph.D., and colleagues in our Precision Vaccines Program found a new potential adjuvant that induces robust responses in donor immune cells. They’ve optimized it for clinical use and hope to test it with influenza and whooping cough vaccines and their own opioid vaccine, under development, to prevent deaths from fentanyl overdose. 👇 http://ms.spr.ly/6044lKNvp
A promising vaccine adjuvant, optimized for clinical use - Boston Children's Answers
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