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Engineering better treatments for AML

“This is a very innovative approach. Using precise gene editing, we hypothesize that we can change one protein in healthy hematopoietic stem...

Tiny scraps of paper from newborn screening tests, each with a dried blood spot smaller than a dime, could unlock insights into how to...

Today, when a child is diagnosed with leukemia, they’re told they are in for a long battle. Those years will include toxic treatments that ca...

Maxim Pimkin, MD, PhD at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is exploring how depleting two proteins in the body could save children with an...

Ani Deshpande, PhD at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in California is working to target previously ‘undruggable’ protei...

When 16-year-old Nate (above) had his 10-hour surgery to remove the bone tumor from his ribs and spine, it was critical that doctors removed th...

Texas The problem: The survival rate of children whose Ewing sarcoma cancer has spread is nothing short of heart-breaking, and only 20% of chil...

Young scientists who want to dedicate their careers to finding better treatments for children with cancer face a tough road. Young researchers,...

Every so often, as Dr. Cara Rabik is in her lab studying better treatments for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), she thinks of a patient she had wh...

Glutamine, an amino acid, is in many of the foods we eat, like eggs, beef and milk. We need it to build proteins that make up our organs, it he...

“Relapse.” “Metastatic.” These are the dreaded words too many Ewing sarcoma patients hear after weeks, even months, of cancer treatment...

Texas Childhood brain tumors are the deadliest of all childhood cancers. They cause the most cancer-related deaths in children, and for patient...