Research

Learn about published research as well as leading-edge basic and translational research initiatives from St. Jude laboratories.

Will Mother Nature deal a deadly hand with influenza virus?

Robert Webster, PhD

How close are we to another deadly influenza virus pandemic? Read about how scientists are figuring out how to prevent the next catastrophe.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

The SILver Lining: The yin-yang balance of proteins in muscle disease

Viraj Ichhaporia

Ever heard of Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome? A St. Jude lab found the mutation that causes it.

New studies raise warnings with CRISPR-Cas9, but there's more to the story

Shondra Pruett-Miller, PhD

Recent studies highlight efficacy and safety issues of CRISPR. While the results are important, read why we should wait before drawing conclusions.

All in the family: How 59,000 volunteers and a team of scientists helped uncover six inherited gene mutations for medulloblastoma

Paul Northcott, PhD

There were 110 suspect genes. We found the six that could lead to childhood brain tumors.