From the age of three, Tara Radcliffe Ghiglieri danced almost every day, leaping, pirouetting, tapping, and high kicking her way into a Broadway career that included a multi-year stint as a Radio City Rockette. She trained hard, at times rehearsing eight hours a day, six days a week. "And performance days could be up to … Continue reading Experimental treatment brings relief for a dancer with chronic knee pain
Gene therapies
CIRM funded clinical trial gives siblings a second chance at life
written by Holly Alyssa MacCormick Image Credit: The Langenhop Family Alicia Langenhop was seven months pregnant with her third child when she and her husband, Jon, learned that their two toddlers had a life-threatening immune disease called leukocyte adhesion deficiency-1 (LAD-1). One in a million LAD-1 is extremely rare—about one in a million births—but because … Continue reading CIRM funded clinical trial gives siblings a second chance at life