Arley is only the 4th child to undergo fetal heart surgery for a pericardial teratoma at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

So that’s what makes these tumors lethal.” Often pericardial teratomas “seem to manifest and present themselves in about 20 to 24 weeks gestation.” That’s also the time when doctors need ...

Ageing is the gradual decline in organismal fitness that occurs over time leading to tissue dysfunction and disease. At the cellular level, ageing is associated with reduced function, altered gene ...

Mutations in the fukutin-related protein (FKRP) cause Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS), a severe form of congenital muscular dystrophy. Here, we established a WWS human induced pluripotent stem ...