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Pharmacotyping of childhood leukemia provides a blueprint for ‘true precision medicine’
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Pharmacotyping of childhood leukemia provides a blueprint for ‘true precision medicine’

by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Wenjian Yang, Shawn Lee, MBBS, and Jun J. Yang, PhD, recently published a comprehensive study pharmacotyping childhood leukemia. Credit: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are reporting the most comprehensive study to date describing the variations in drug response across different genetic subtypes of acute lymphoblastic leukemia...

A step closer to a low toxicity treatment for childhood leukemia
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A step closer to a low toxicity treatment for childhood leukemia

by Northumbria University, Newcastle  Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100717 Newly published research carried out using synthetic human bone marrow cells is paving the way for the development of safer and kinder treatments for children with leukemia. Leukemia is the most common cancer in children under 15, with over 650 children and young adults...