University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers and colleagues linked infant brain anatomy differences to autism diagnoses at age two. Now they show differences in functional connections between brain regions at 6 months to predict autism at age two.
The study is the first to show it is possible to identify which infants – among those with older siblings with autism – will be diagnosed with autism at 24 months of age.
Brain cancer patients don’t have weeks and months to wait for human skin cells to be converted to stem cells. This new process to create stem cells is fast enough and simple enough to treat patients.
Since the MedServe program launched in the fall of 2016, its 13 fellows have helped care for nearly 6,000 patients in North Carolina.