SCI causes 'immune system paralysis'

“Our research shows evidence that spinal cord injury directly causes increased risk for bacterial infection such as pneumonia. … Pneumonia is the leading cause of death after acute spinal cord injury and is associated with poor neurological outcome. Patients with spinal…

New stem cell reprogramming factor yields more efficient generation of human iPS cells

Kejin Hu, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has found a robust reprogramming factor that increases the efficiency of creating human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) from skin fibroblasts more than 20-fold, speeds the reprogramming time by several…