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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

Research

Targeted therapy larotrectinib could make tumors with rare NTRK fusion genes less lethal

Alberto Pappo, MD

Newly approved Vitrakvi (larotrectinib) scored high patient response rates by inhibiting a rare chromosomal abnormality that drives tumor growth.

Research

What is extreme phenotype sequencing? Taking STEPS to improve genome-wide association studies

Guolian Kang, PhD

Will a new genome sequencing data mining technique reveal the mother lode of secrets for treating cancer and other catastrophic diseases?

Outreach

St. Jude and WHO collaborate to improve cancer cure rate

Lance Wiedower

Learn how St. Jude and World Health Organization are taking on the six most common childhood cancers to improve global survival rates.

Research

What is causing resistance to the new flu drug, Xofluza?

Lee Morgan

A recently discovered mutation that occurs when the flu virus is exposed Xofluza could also cause drug resistance.

Clinical

You can help prevent suicide

Jennifer Harman, PhD

Suicidal thoughts or actions are not the end – don’t believe these myths associated with suicide.

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.