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Creating Hope for Kids Like Kaira
January 16, 2020
She thought she had the stomach flu. It turned out to be a brain tumor the size of a golf ball. After undergoing surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Kaira is now flourishing.
Kylee’s Story
September 23, 2015
Meet Kylee, who has mitochondrial disease, a genetic disorder that occurs when the mitochondria, which are the powerhouses of the cell, fail to produce enough energy for cell and organ function.
Oncoproteins Interact to Promote Cancer Cell Growth in Retinoblastoma
October 17, 2016
Microscopic image: MDM2 expression (in red) in retinoblastoma Rb176 cells. Credit: Donglai Qi, PhD, and David Cobrinik, MD, PhD. Researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los
CHLA Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Help Expand Pediatric MRI Access to Developing Countries
December 26, 2022
Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for developing image analysis tools to enable more accessible imaging for pediatric brain research.
New Tool for Analyzing Mouse Vocalizations May Provide Additional Insights for Autism Modeling
May 16, 2017
Vocalization plays a significant role in social communication across species such as speech by humans and song by birds. Male mice produce ultrasonic vocalizations in the presence of females and both
CHLA Pediatric Gastroenterology Program is Awarded NIH Grant to Train Physician-Scientists, Accepts First Fellow
September 21, 2022
The Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has announced that Rachel Beth Schenker, MD, is the department’s first pediatric gastroenterology fellow.
Preventing ACL Injuries Before They Occur
February 5, 2016
A common and often devastating injury in sports – anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury can require surgery to restore knee stability and allow athletes to return to playing sports. However
Single Cell, Sequencing and CyTOF (SC2) Core
December 10, 2021
The SC2 Core aims to promote and enable high-impact basic and translational research by establishing novel and evolving technologies and instrumentation for investigators at CHLA and USC. Led by
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