UCSC goes bald to back childhood cancer research

UCSC goes bald to back childhood cancer research

SANTA CRUZ >> Aurora Learned, 4, shared her mom’s lap with her younger brother Friday afternoon, watching as barbers gave her grandfather and her mom a bald new look. Afterward, the blonde tyke posed with her mom in the courtyard of UC Santa Cruz Engineering Building...
How Real-Time Data Sharing Benefits Children with Cancer

How Real-Time Data Sharing Benefits Children with Cancer

By Olena Morozova, Ph.D., Co-Founder of UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, and David Haussler, Ph.D., Director of UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute The Cancer Moonshot is a Mission, and All of Us #CanServe Vice President Joe Biden’s efforts to...
St Baldrick’s Supports New Research Using Shared Data

St Baldrick’s Supports New Research Using Shared Data

We have known for over a hundred years that cancer is caused by mutations in the DNA. But just in the last decade, we have finally developed the technology to affordably read, or “sequence,” the DNA of a tumor — also known as its genome — to find the exact genetic...