Tag: Department of Pediatrics

Health
Gene chips aid drug search in rare cancers

When Kimberly Stegmaier was a pediatric oncology fellow at Dana-Farber and Children’s Hospital Boston six years ago, she says,”I was struck by how poorly our young patients with AML (acute…

April 7, 2006
Campus & Community
Researchers uncover cause of asthma

Medical experts have been baffled by what causes asthma. Most of them favor the idea that it stems from “helper” cells that have gone awry. But researchers at Harvard Medical…

March 16, 2006
Health
Child early intervention programs make for healthier adults

The Brookline Early Education Program (BEEP), a community- based child health and development program, was initiated by the Brookline Public Schools and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and ran from…

July 5, 2005
Health
Protein seen to animate cell skeleton

The cytoskeleton is made up of arrays of actin filaments that are arranged into widely different structures — parallel arrays that mediate muscle contraction, networks of branched filaments at the…

September 13, 2002
Health
Six new breast cancer-susceptibility genes found

The discovery of six new cancer-susceptibility genes grew out of more than 10 years of research by Alan D’Andrea into Fanconi anemia, a condition known to affect only 500 families…

June 13, 2002
Science & Tech
Scientists using gene chips identify unique form of leukemia

Currently, physicians diagnose and treat a rare form of cancer that strikes infants as a particularly aggressive form of the more common acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The cancer may respond to…

December 3, 2001