St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have treated infants with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency using gene therapy in an early phase study.
Starting with samples from an 11-year-old boy with spitzoid melanoma, researchers identified recurrent MAP3K8 fusions that may respond to MEK inhibitors.
A common variant polygenic risk score, rare cancer risk gene mutations, and prior treatments each provide clues to breast cancer risk in childhood cancer survivors.
A $5 million NIH grant will fund CPIC's ongoing work to develop PGx guidelines and an API for incorporating them into EHRs and clinical decision support systems.
An international team found that survival estimates differed significantly between patients with germline mutations in different medulloblastoma predisposition genes.
Two patients fell ill, and one subsequently died, following a fecal microbiome transplant that harbored multi-drug-resistant bacteria, according to the New York Times.
