by Garth Sundem | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured, Research
Jean Mulcahy Levy, MD Cancers used to be defined by where they grow in the body – lung cancer, skin cancer, brain cancer, etc. But work in recent decades has shown that cancers sharing specific genetic changes may have more in common than cancers that happen to grow...
by Garth Sundem | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Research
Patricia Ernst, PhD A massive research effort over more than a quarter century has tried to make personalized blood stem cells for use in treating leukemias, among many other uses. One way researchers have gone about this is to sample a patient’s adult cells and then...
by Garth Sundem | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured, Honors
The most important factor predicting the survival of pancreatic cancer patients is whether the cancer can be surgically removed (whether the cancer is “resectable”). The answer isn’t always clear. Some centers may consider a tumor too entangled with neighboring organs...
by Garth Sundem | Jan 8, 2020 | Featured, Research
Tin Tin Su, PhD. (photo: Paul Muhlrad) The red, tube-shaped flowers of the firecracker bush (Bouvardia ternifolia), native to Mexico and the American Southwest, attract hummingbirds. The bush also provides the chemical bouvardin, which the lab of University of...
by Garth Sundem | Dec 16, 2019 | Featured, Philanthropy
Adam Green, MD The technique known as RNA sequencing lets researchers discover which genes are turned on and off in a sample of tissue. In cancer, RNA-seq (as it’s known) is used to find the faulty genes driving the disease. But not all cells within a tumor are the...
