Key detailsThe question: Families who store their baby’s stem cells want to know how long frozen cells keep working. Well-established methods already exist for freezing and storing blood-forming and mesenchymal stem cells long term [1].The new finding: A study from...

Key detailsThe condition: Osteoarthritis affected over 528 million people worldwide in 2019, and the knee is one of the joints most commonly affected – with a prevalence of 365 million [1]. There is no cure, and current treatment manages symptoms rather than repairing...

Key detailsThe condition: Pre-eclampsia affects around one in 20 pregnancies worldwide and, together with fetal growth restriction, is a major cause of stillbirth and of illness in mothers and newborns [1, 2].The discovery: Cambridge scientists found that low levels...

Key detailsThe condition: Around 1 in 500 babies born globally has cerebral palsy, a lifelong condition that affects movement and coordination [1, 2].The story: Gabriel Machado, a teenager from Lexington, Massachusetts, has been accepted onto a Duke University...

Key details The condition: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive scarring disease of the lungs that mainly affects older adults. Thousands of people are newly diagnosed in the UK each year, and studies of health records show the condition is becoming more...