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Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Studying Congenital Heart Defects
By Lilly Su, MD Candidate, Class of 2023, Penn State College of Medicine. Previously, we discussed the different types of stem cells. Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are cells with very similar characteristics to embryonic stem cells, as both types of...
Pediatric Brain Tumors
By Lilly Su, MD Candidate, Class of 2023, Penn State College of Medicine. This article is a continuation of the discussion of pediatric brain and spinal cord cancers. Please click here to read our previous article on astrocytoma.Brain Stem GliomasBrain stem gliomas...
Pediatric Cancers and Treatment
By Lilly Su, MD Candidate, Class of 2023, Penn State College of MedicineBrain tumorsCancer is a diagnosis that nobody wants to hear come out of their physician’s mouth, even more so, out of the mouth of their child’s pediatrician. In an ideal world, we would never...