Four staff members of Keck Medical Center of USC recently participated in a conference for Latina girls.
Keck Medical Center hosted two workshops at the 19th annual Adelante Mujer Latina Teen Conference on May 11. The conference is designed to educate and inspire Latina girls, while providing them with professional role models and plans for their future. … Read More »
As part of the Common Cents Penny Harvest — a nationwide program designed to empower children to donate to causes they care about — fifth graders at Sacred Heart Elementary School in Lincoln Heights recently collected $916 in pennies. … Read More »
Thanks to some cutting-edge technology, inpatient nurses and Keck Medical Center of USC will soon be able to connect with patients and other nurses and receive critical alarms just by reaching into their pockets.
In August, the center will receive 300 specialty iPhones that will enable inpatient nursing staff to work faster, smarter and easier.
“This will become their communication device,” said Keith Paul, chief technology officer for USC Health Sciences. “The idea is to give them one device to do everything.” … Read More »
The Injury Prevention Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles hosted a free car seat check for families at the USC Child Care Center on June 21, as part of an effort to reduce the potential for accidental injuries. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, three of four car seats are installed incorrectly, so CHLA certified safety technicians checked car seats and reinstalled them to assure best placement — and also provided new ones when needed. … Read More »
Researchers are learning how to turn regular cells into stem cells, a process called reprogramming. However, some of the mechanisms of the process remain unknown, such as why only a small proportion of the cells can be reprogrammed. Researchers have at least part of the answer: the structure of genes.
“Nobody knows anything about how the 3-D genome structure is reorganized during reprogramming,” said Wange Lu, associate professor at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “But we found out that it is a very important process. If the structure is not established correctly, the cells may cause diseases when they are used later in clinical applications.”
Lu and his team have made a series of discoveries that shed light on the process. Their findings have been published in the July issue of Cell Stem Cell. … Read More »