2018 Archive

Research

NLRP3 balance: St. Jude researchers pinpoint key innate immune system regulator

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD

For 12 years, science didn’t know how certain immune responses were activated. They do now, and it may lead to new cancer treatments.

Research

What you’re missing if you’re only sequencing exomes or RNA

Carole Weaver Clements, PhD

New findings from St. Jude study Genomes 4 Kids suggest many actionable mutations are missed without a three-platform genomic sequencing approach that includes WGS.

Clinical

Precision medicine has a role in the cures of the future

Charles Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD

Is precision medicine the next frontier of discovery for cancer cures? This scientist says, for some patients, it may be.

Outreach

Your cancer journey is a teacher: it’s your story, not your baggage

Somer Greene

If you could go back and tell your younger self how to get through the most difficult time, what would you say? Read how a cancer survivor would write it.

Research

mTORC1, the ‘Sorting Hat’ of the thymic school

Daniel Bastardo-Blanco

House of blood or house of guts? Read how this internal Sorting Hat decides where cells go.

Clinical

Postural balance is an issue with pediatric leukemia survivors

Mitra Varedi

Think balance is simply staying upright? It’s much more complicated than that, especially if you’re a survivor.

Clinical

Pediatric otolaryngology: Taking care of ears, noses and throats

Elizabeth Jane Walker

Pediatric cancers cause many problems above the neck. Pediatric otolaryngology seeks to repair cancer’s damage to children’s ears, noses and throats.

Outreach

Truly exceptional: Ranking reflects commitment to addressing cancer’s questions

Charles Roberts, MD, PhD

Read what happens when you get scientists and doctors together to help children.

Clinical

For some childhood cancer survivors, new hardships await

I-Chan Huang, PhD

Overcoming childhood cancer is only the beginning of the journey – a whole new set of problems await.

Clinical

Even teens with chronic medical illnesses need to be allowed to be teens

Kendra Parris, PhD

Raising a teen is hard enough without the added stress of a medical condition — here’s nine ways you can help them and foster their development.