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UCSC Pediatric Cancer Effort Finds Success Using Gene Expression Data to Match Patients to Treatments
By: Christie Rizk - February 14, 2018SAN FRANCISCO (GenomeWeb) – Using gene expression data from pediatric tumor samples, researchers at the California Kids Cancer Comparison (CKCC) project have been able to match 100 percent of their samples to possible treatments...
New Screening Tools and Immunotherapy for Pediatric Cancer
A UCSC team of investigators and collaborators just published research pointing to new screening tools and immunotherapy for neuroblastoma (NBL), a devastating pediatric cancer. Authors included UCSC’s Arjun Rao, Sofie Salama and David Haussler. Read more in Frontiers...
Expression analysis and Treehouse model
Expression analysis (RNA seq analysis) of children and adult data: Why is the Treehouse model novel?Treehouse is harnessing the power of Big Data to benefit individual patients locally and globally. The researchers at Treehouse are using expression analysis (RNA...
California Awards UCSC Precision Medicine Funds for Childhood Cancer Research
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Treehouse Initiative Targets Cancer Using Computers SANTA CRUZ, CA – January 8 , 2018 – The California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM) has awarded the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative of the UC Santa Cruz...
Did you know that childhood cancer is very different than adult cancer?
With this in mind, researchers at the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative are using big data to find a cure... now. The Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is raising questions and suggesting intervention strategies for...