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  1. The @fresnonupes are asking you to support our efforts to raise money for St. Jude.

    I’m personally asking friends and colleagues to give $10 to help children fighting cancer and other serious illnesses. Every contribution truly matters—thank you. #FresnoNupes #KAPsi #StJude #Kappa

    fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR

  2. The #H5N1 #fluvirus poses a great unknown threat to birds and humans. For decades, #StJude #virologists have been mining #DelawareBay each year to expand their knowledge and to help thwart possible #influenza outbreaks. Learn how: bit.ly/3IVn1AA @emilyanthes @nytimes #StJudeResearch #FluResearch

  3. Join Thurs, May 25, at noon CT/1 pm ET as Dr. Kim Nichols of #StJude presents “Hereditary Predisposition to Cancer: At the Tip of the Iceberg.” She’ll discuss the prevalence & spectrum of #cancer predisposing #GermlineVariants in children and young adults, how these variants influence cancer #phenotypes & outcomes, and how #germline info impacts #ClinicalCare—including approaches to #CancerSurveillance & treatment. Register. bit.ly/SOCC23-MAS #SOCC23 #ChildhoodCancer #CancerPredisposition

  4. #PrimeEditing is a new #GenomeEditing technology that promises to fix #SickleCellDisease-causing mutations in a curative approach. Discover more about this technology, a collaboration of #StJude and the #BroadInstitute of MIT and #Harvard. bit.ly/3A5CbOP

  5. Join us Thurs, March 23, at noon CT/1 pm ET as Dr. Maksim Mamonkin of #Baylor College of Medicine presents “CAR T-cells for T-cell Malignancies: Proving and Improving” and Dr. Giedre Krenciute of #StJude presents “What will it take to make CARTs effective for pediatric brain tumors?” Register. bit.ly/SOCC23-MAS #SOCC23 #TCells #CARTCells #CancerResearch #BrainTumors

  6. Researchers at #StJude have developed an #algorithm inspired by #evolutionary principles to #design new #protein pairs that interact exclusively. With this approach, it might be possible, for example, to design proteins or short #peptides that can inhibit or activate #celldeath proteins, which would be useful to help treat a variety of #metabolicdiseases. Learn more. bit.ly/3ZBy9sr
    #StJudeResearch #DataScience

  7. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for achievements in innate immunity, developing new concepts in inflammasome biology and identifying an inflammatory cell-death pathway called PANoptosis. bit.ly/Kanneganti-AAAS
    #StJude #StJudeResearch #Immunology #WomenInSTEM #CellDeath