Australia’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is helping scientists using stem cell medicine and artificial intelligence to develop accurate therapy for pediatric heart disease, the major cause of death and disability in children.
Every year about 260,000 children die from heart disease around the world. In America, a child is born with heart defects every 15 minutes.
“We are really interested in understanding how children develop heart disease and where we can intervene to prevent progress,” said David Elliot, leader of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) Heart Disease Group.
Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch’s mother Dame Elizabeth Murdoch found MCRI of Australia. The institute is partnership with the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco for the Decoding Broken Hearts Program.
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Amelia and Eliza Mallinson are two children who can benefit from this research. Brother -in -law live in Melbourne and the same is the state of genetic heart.
“We took her to her local emergency because she woke up, she was swollen,” said Amelia and Eliza’s mother, Aboni Malisan. “We felt that she was only sleepy, but came to know that she was inside and outside the consciousness.”
Amelia was two years old when doctors discovered her condition.
Aboni Mallison, the center, sits with his two children, Amelia and Eliza, living with the same genetic heart condition. Both his cases are nominated in the Decoding Broken Hearts Program. (Fox News)
“When he did an X-ray of the chest, he realized that his heart was too big as it should have been, and he realized that he was in heart failure,” Mallison said.
Amelia waited for about a year for heart transplantation. After successful treatment, she mostly leads a normal life. The condition of his brother Elijah was discovered during a precautionary checkup.
“It was quite a shock because we did not know about anything, which would make him a heart condition. It was a lot, which could check him to rule completely that anything is wrong,” Malison said. “I think it was more scary because we could guess the evil. But he is really stable and really healthy, not really still needs any treatment or treatment, which is very good.”
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Elliott stated that the target is to find diagnosis and treatment before children such as Eliza, which ever requires transplantation.
David Elliot, leader of the Heart Disease Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, examined an image of the heart on his monitor. (Fox News)
Elliot said, “For many people, this disease will be absolutely important if you can fix the problem.” “People who have very severe heart disease will require three surgery before five to five. And it is very dry for the families involved. And therefore, what we really like to do is really progress and allows those children to have a very effective life.”
The MCRI is part of the Royal Children Hospital, which treats around 700 heart conditions each year. Each case is nominated in the decoding Broken Hearts Program.
“We can use a special technique called Reprograming. So we take a small sample of this child’s blood,” Elliot said. “From that, we can create a heart cell. And that heart cell has an accurate replica in the baby’s heart cell laboratory.”
Researchers then create additional small heart replicas to change the task and find possible treatment for patients in Royal Children.
Scientists use blood samples of patients to create small heart replicas for study, aided by artificial intelligence. (Fox News)
“We are trying to use all those different devices and technologies, to understand how the disease develops and we can seek new remedies using accurate medicines to help children suffering from heart disease,” said Elliot.
One of the most new devices with the help of Gladstone Institutes is Artificial Intelligence.
Elliut said, “Gladstone expertise and computational knowledge that the disease is created around the Gulf region to use AI to study the disease.” “What AI allows us to do, before we bring them to the cell before millions of experiments in computers, and this allows us to really look at the ideal location, to help cure the disease.”
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Amelia and Elijah have also participated in the study to proceed for further treatment for situations like themselves.
“If it also helps a family, it is worth it,” Mallinson said. “Each staff members who come in contact and do research you come in contact in the hospital make a big difference between the lives of all children and the families of these children.”
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