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Destiny Hinton

Destiny HInton

Destiny Hinton is a communications intern in the Department of Communications & Scientific and Medical Content Outreach at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Stories by Destiny Hinton

Science Education

Legendary flu hunter offers tips to stay healthy during a pandemic

Mary Powers

This researcher's recommendations on coronavirus are based on 65 years of infectious diseases and viral research.

Research

A global resource to learn more about pediatric cancer patients and COVID-19

Nickhill Bhakta, MD, MPH

Little is known about childhood cancer patients who are diagnosed with COVID-19, but a new registry is the first step to finding out.

Profiles

A neuroscientist finds a niche at St. Jude

Mary Powers

A neuroscientist studying the brain’s fight-or-flight response is learning more about developing brains and this about pediatric brain tumors.

Mental Health

Working with parents to better understand how hope and realism coexist

Erica Kaye, MD, MPH

Read how a new model of hope and realism are seen as life-affirming instead of death-denying, strengthening the doctor-patient family relationship.

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Researchers take the fight to drug resistance up an octave

Robert J. Autry and William E. Evans, PharmD

Drug resistance is a major reason for treatment failure in children with leukemia, but recent research may have an answer.

Research

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes

Ben Youngblood, PhD

Learning more about how the body attacks itself in Type 1 diabetes offers insights into how to harness the power of T cells to treat cancer.

Developmental Biology

Discovery shows oxygen’s role in neuron development

David J. Solecki, PhD

Read how oxygen’s role neuron development is critical for brain health in infants.

Clinical

Clinical research: Understanding the importance of nursing in precision medicine

Kerry Hillis Goff

Clinical research and precision medicine are changing health care, and nursing as a profession can play this critical role with patients and families.

Solid Tumors

The mission to make a rare disease extinct

Kim E. Nichols, MD

A newly found fossil may help us learn more about histiocytosis, a rare disorder of the immune system. Read how scientists are collaborating on new therapies.

Science Education

Cancer predisposition: early conversations set expectations for future findings

Liza-Marie Johnson, MD, MPH, MSB

Understanding more about childhood cancer raises ethical issues related to cancer predisposition not just for current patients, but for generations after.