A new study shows that loss of heterozygosity testing has the potential to become a key factor for guiding treatment decision making in some Wilms tumor patients.

A multi-institutional research team found 157 different kinds of organisms (eight phyla, 18 classes, 23 orders, 38 families, 59 genera and 109 species) living inside the guts of healthy volunteers.

To help improve outcomes to allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplants for patients with Epstein Barr virus (EBV)-associated lymphomas, researchers are testing transplants of immune cells specifically trained to fight cells infected with EBV.

A multi-institutional team led by research faculty at Children’s National finds that extracellular vesicles derived from kids’ fat can play a pivotal role in ratcheting up risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease well before any worrisome symptoms become visible.