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Our laboratory uses stem cells to generate human bioengineered skeletal muscle to understand disease and find treatments.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) researcher Dr Nicole Van Bergen has been recognised for a project that aims to use stem cell therapy to treat a severe neurological disorder in children.Dr Van Bergen received the $74,000 Victorian Near-Miss Award for her trial into improving
Our vision is to use human pluripotent stem cells to study immunity and autoimmunity, which will help us understand how our immune system defends against diseases and why it sometimes attacks itself.
A correctly beating heart is vital to a baby's growth during pregnancy, helping guard against heart defects at birth, which are the most common birth defects.Using human pluripotent stem cells, a Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) team showed that a gene called NKX2-5 is responsible for
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute researcher Dr Holly Voges has received a prestigious Fellowship to explore how stem cells could help better understand and treat severe heart disease. The National Heart Foundation announced Dr Voges as a recipient of its Postdoctoral Research Fellowship,
We are dedicated to investigating disease mechanisms and clinical conditions that are primarily caused by pathological alterations in genes and chromosomes, with an emphasis on rare genetic diseases.
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