People with sickle cell disease (SCD) who are hospitalized for opioid overdose have fewer serious complications than those without…
Margarida Maia, PhD
Margarida is a biochemist (University of Porto, Portugal) with a PhD in biomedical sciences (VIB and KULeuven, Belgium). Her main interest is science communication. She is also passionate about design and the dialogue between art and science.
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Articles by Margarida Maia, PhD
It may be possible to collect nearly three times as many stem cells for gene therapy for sickle cell…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug status to Kind Pharmaceuticals’ investigational oral small molecule AND017 to…
Preschool-aged children with sickle cell disease (SCD) living in so-called food deserts, or areas where access to healthy food…
The number of stroke cases among adults and children with sickle cell disease (SCD) continues to increase in at…
Using lactated Ringer’s solution instead of normal saline to replace lost fluids in adults admitted to the hospital for…
Low-intensity stem cell transplants, which use milder conditioning regimens, appear not to damage the lungs and may even improve…
A second clinical study to test how well BioLineRx’s motixafortide helps mobilize hematopoietic stem cells for use in gene…
Explosive synchronization in the brain, wherein a small change in the brain network causes it to sync up and undergo…
A bone marrow transplant approach that doesn’t use high-dose chemotherapy to prevent an immune response against a donor’s stem cells…