New research has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that explains why patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often become resistant…
Ever since he started working in a biomedical research lab and shadowing doctors in the hospital, Michael Lee has known…
Sisi Zheng, M.D., wants to understand what drives the evolution of one of the most common and aggressive pediatric blood…
Giovanni Botten, an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Xu lab, was awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship. This fellowship…
DALLAS – April 8, 2021 – New research has uncovered a surprising role for so-called “jumping” genes that are a…
Mutations in certain DNA sequences known as noncoding regulatory regions have the ability to rewire how genes are expressed during…
Researchers at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) discovered that epigenetic alterations, which determine when genes…
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded more than $6.1 million to Children’s Medical Center Research Institute…
Dr. Jian Xu, Assistant Professor at CRI and UT Southwestern, and Dr. Kathryn Dickerson, Assistant Instructor in Pediatrics at UT…