Immune markers offer clues to antibody production in response to flu
Scientists are learning more about antibody production in response to flu, including how they develop from helper T cells and monocytes.
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What we’ve found out about hearing loss and cognitive function in children
This study, to our knowledge, is the first to objectively measure hearing and neurocognitive function in a large cohort of long-term survivors of childhood cancer stratified by treatment exposures.
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How do fathers grieve the loss of a child?
Bereavement negatively impacts the psychological and physical health of parents, but historically, 75% of parents studied in pediatric palliative care research have been mothers. Because of this, the experience of fathers is not well understood.
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Blocking the progression of pre-leukemic disorders
John Crispino’s lab will tackle such big questions as what are the common pathways that promote progression of these different pre-leukemic disorders? They will also be looking at the differences between these disorders in children and adults.
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What a virologist says about controlling a pandemic
The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 reached New Zealand at the end of February. By early May, the country had mostly returned to normal activity. What can we learn from this to prepare for a future pandemic?
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Common astrovirus can lead to serious health problems
The lab of Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD, is interested in understanding how astrovirus, commonly associated with childhood diarrhea, can escape the gut and travel to the brain in kids (and potentially adults), causing severe disease.
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Reducing deep sequencing errors to find residual cancer cells
DNA deep-sequencing analysis can monitor treatment progress, but errors limit what the process can find. A new computational tool identifies those errors to achieve more accurate results.
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Are scientific citations meaningful? Scientific progress from a larger perspective
Scientific citations recognize scientific work that is valuable to that research community. As a postdoctoral fellow in a highly cited lab, I see how our work drives research forward.
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Word to the wise: Don’t let the genomic data fool you
Start by asking the basic questions to find the true answers inside large amounts of genomic data.
Read MoreHow to calm the cytokine storm in COVID-19 and beyond
COVID-19 infections can become life-threatening for some as a result of an overactive immune response, called a cytokine storm. Recent discoveries in the lab have shown that current medications can prevent this from occurring.
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Producing the cancer reference book for central nervous system tumors
This St. Jude researcher is an editor and expert advisor on the definitive text of central nervous system tumors.
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New clues about the machinery of brain development
New insights into neuronal formation and migration that are key to brain development show potential therapeutic targets for childhood brain cancer.
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