Congratulations to Dr. Darlene Dai, Dr. Stuart Turvey and Dr. Charisse Petersen on the study!

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New research from BCCHR, uses longitudinal data from the CHILD Cohort Study, to show that breastfeeding acts as a shield, protecting the infant microbiota from many different exposures well into early childhood. The impact is especially clear among children from lower socioeconomic status.

I totally agree. It is my mission to always connect with bedside care teams rather than hiding away on my computer. This is where I find the joy of medicine! But maybe I am just old?

Thanks Dawn!

Our new paper is out!

Breastfeeding may lessen socioeconomic disparities in child health through differences in the infant gut microbiome Darlene Dai, Charisse Petersen, Stuart Turvey, and colleagues report that breastfeeding may mitigate the adverse effects of socioeconomic disadvantage on early risk factors for non-communicable diseases. The authors link this effect to differences in infant gut microbiota, including enrichment of Bifidobacterium infantis, highlighting potentially modifiable pathways underlying intergenerational health inequities.

Online now: Breastfeeding may lessen socioeconomic disparities in child health through differences in the infant gut microbiome

Thanks for noticing @labwaggoner.bsky.social !

Breastfeeding may lessen socioeconomic disparities in child health through differences in the infant gut microbiome @cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social @turveylab.bsky.social
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Totally agree with this!

Bravo! Really important work.

Monogenic disorders of the IRF transcription factors. Review by Mattison Stojcic, Pariya Yousefi, Catherine Biggs, and Stuart Turvey @turveylab.bsky.social: rupress.org/jem/article/...

📘 In our #InnateImmunity collection: rupress.org/jem/collecti...

#KSInnateImmune26

You are kind to say that Dawn!

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Fantastic interview with Ty Sperle and BCCHR's Dr Stuart Turvey (@turveylab.bsky.social) on a successful gene treatment for a rare immune disorder on The Current with Matt Galloway this morning.

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B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

In world-first, B.C. teen cured of rare genetic disease The 19-year-old, who lives in Kelowna, had been diagnosed with chronic granulomatous disease around age five, compromising his immune system

In a world first, B.C. teen cured of rare disease through gene editing treatment. Ty Sperle cured of chronic granulomatous disease with a treatment known as “prime editing,” by Brenna Owen www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Great to talk with Matt Galloway on CBC The Current this morning about successful gene therapy for a human immune defect.

The Current with Matt Galloway - March 9, 2026: How a gene edit gave a B.C teen his life back.

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Learn how the early life #microbiome shapes immune programming in childhood #asthma and #allergies in this review from Stuart Turvey and colleagues mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

A multimorphic variant in ThPOK causes #InbornErrorsOfImmunity with T cell defects and #fibrosis, say Maryam Vaseghi-Shanjani, Mehul Sharma, Catherine M. Biggs, Stuart E. Turvey et al. @TurveyLab.bsky.social
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Instead of studying asthma only after children get sick, Dr. Stuart Turvey and his team at UBC have taken a different approach.

💩 By analyzing infant stool samples, researchers found differences in gut bacteria that were associated with later development of #asthma: https://bit.ly/4rqPbHa

@romberglab.bsky.social!!

What can dirty diapers tell us about #asthma?
Clues from the gut #microbiome are reshaping how we understand pediatric asthma and allergies!
Breastfeeding, B. infantis, and early microbial exposures matter. 2025 @washumedicine.bsky.social Pediatric
Research Retreat #Keynote by Stuart Turvey

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology - Canada News Beep Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology

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Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through…

This is BRILLIANT!!
B.C. teen becomes first in the world cured of rare disease using gene editing 🙏

18-year-old Ty Sperle from UBC Okanagan was Participant 1 in the trial. He had chronic granulomatous disease since age 5 and is now completely cured after the gene edit fixed his immune cells.

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology - Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

Ultimate precision medicine!

Delighted to have played a small part to ensure our patient from @bcchresearch.bsky.social was able to receive this remarkable curative treatment.

Kudos to Dr. Elie Haddad for launching this trial in Canada.

@nejm.org @genomecanada.ca @genomebc.bsky.social

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

Ultimate precision medicine!

Delighted to have played a small part to ensure our patient from @bcchresearch.bsky.social was able to receive this remarkable curative treatment.

Kudos to Dr. Elie Haddad for launching this trial in Canada.

@nejm.org @genomecanada.ca @genomebc.bsky.social

Ultimate precision medicine!

Delighted to have played a small part to ensure our patient from @bcchresearch.bsky.social was able to receive this remarkable curative treatment.

Kudos to Dr. Elie Haddad for launching this trial in Canada.

@nejm.org @genomecanada.ca @genomebc.bsky.social

#5 Kanegane et al review unresolved issues in the pathogenesis of X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA), incl. non-coding BTK variants, contiguous deletion syndrome, Helicobacter infection, non-infectious neurodegeneration, renal involvement & malignancies: rupress.org/jhi/article/...

#4 Type I IFN autoantibodies (auto-Abs) are associated w/ severe #COVID19. Peduti et al. reveal a 6.7% prevalence of auto-Abs in critically ill Brazilian patients, predominantly affecting older individuals, and links their presence to worse clinical outcomes: rupress.org/jhi/article/...