2019 Archive

There’s a link between hearing loss and difficulty learning to read – and researchers are looking into helping young brain tumor survivors bolster their reading skills.

Scott Newman, PhD, shares the release of real-time clinical genomics data through the St. Jude Cloud platform at the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

The biggest factor in childhood cancer survival is where you’re born. This group is doing something to ensure that doesn’t matter.

Read how this woman coordinates and sometimes invents resources at this top research facility to help scientists doing critical work.

It’s easier to find a needle in a haystack when you take away the hay – read how this research team is reducing gene sequencing errors.

Read how ancestry plays a role in determining your risk for cancer. In the case of Hispanic children, researchers found an increased risk of leukemia.

Read about the work from a goal – to a treatment – to a cure – and one scientist’s legacy.

Two pediatric melanoma cases diagnosed a year apart reveal a new genetic driver of the disease. Read more about this spitzoid melanoma work.

Immunologists turn to Jeremy Crawford, PhD, when planning complex experiments or re-analyzing collected data. Learn about his bioinformatics career.

Read how this molecule rips the “skin” of the cell to kill it, and how research is learning how this power is unleased.