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The Research Institute - Latest SickKids Discoveries

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Science opens the doors to improved understanding, prevention, treatment and cure of children's diseases.

You can be proud of supporting some of the most innovative research in children's health in the world. Your donations are making it possible for SickKids researchers to make discoveries vital to understanding and curing childhood diseases.

To learn more about the exciting SickKids research discoveries and research innovators that philanthropy helps to support, please click below:

Latest News

• Canadian scientists lead international autism genome discoveries: Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Offord Centre for Child Studies have led an international consortium in the discovery of a previously unidentified chromosomal region containing autism-causing genes.
• Hope for a new treatment strategy: SickKids researchers' discovery that diabetes is controlled by sensory nerve endings in the islet cells that produce insulin has led to development of a treatment that reverses the disease without severe toxic immunosuppression.
• New Discovery: SickKids researchers show that stem cells found in adult skin can be transplanted and function in mouse models of disease.
• SickKids Research in JAMA: SickKids researchers determine humidity is an ineffective therapy for moderate to severe cases of croup
• SickKids Research: Morphine and topical anaesthesia treat pain in newborn infants
• Research Excellence - SickKids Research Awards 2005

We think you will agree that it is an impressive body of work.

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