Research Blog
Published on February 4, 2019
Bayanihan is a Filipino term that means working together in the community to accomplish a difficult task.
It is a generation ago. A young girl named Joyce was born in
Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles – where many immigrants from the Philippines
often first settle. Her... Read More
Published on January 9, 2019
CHLA’s Dr. Bradley
Peterson weighs in on what it takes to develop a human brain In a public town-hall style event, CHLA’s Dr. Bradley Peterson
spoke amongst a panel of early childhood specialists. The event was organized
by KPCC In Person and hosted by Priska
Neely, who covers... Read More
Published on January 2, 2019
Cell phones are small but mighty. They’re essentially fully functional
computers that fit in our back pockets. But if our phone stops working, we don’t
know how to fix it ourselves – we take it to a specialist. Luckily, there is a
standardized template for how it is... Read More
Published on December 20, 2018
Actually, it can
hide. CHLA’s Yong-Mi Kim tells us exactly how leukemia burrows within bone
marrow, where it is shielded from cancer treatments. But given Kim’s
breakthrough research on acute lymphoblastic leukemia, it won’t be able to hide
forever.Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (... Read More
Published on December 6, 2018
FDA grants accelerated
approval for Vitrakvi® (larotrectinib) for the treatment of solid tumors. This
is the second FDA-approved drug for cancers based on their genetic makeup
as opposed to location in the body.While other toddlers her age were fighting naptime,
two-year-old... Read More
Published on March 28, 2018
1 out of 68
children in the United States will be diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD). The prevalence of an ASD diagnosis grew by 72 percent between
2007 and 2011. Tech-based interventions targeted to children with autism have
the potential to help solve challenges... Read More
Published on March 12, 2018
The
sidewalk was smooth and the sky was clear, so Sophia Cabrera took out her
skateboard and went for a ride. Before she could return home, she fell, landed
in a heap and broke her arm. Funny thing is, she and her family couldn’t have
been happier. Falls and fractures are... Read More
Published on March 5, 2018
Baby Jasmine was born in late December with
hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and had her first open-heart surgery at
five days old. She is enrolled in the groundbreaking clinical trial at
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. New
therapy could boost organ... Read More
Published on November 28, 2017
David Warburton, MD, has been
elected a 2017 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) in recognition his contributions to innovation, education, and
scientific leadership in the Section of Medical Sciences. Warburton, who is the director of the... Read More
Published on November 7, 2017
The Sharon D. Lund Foundation has awarded $400,000 to Michele
Kipke, PhD, vice chair of Research and division head of Research
on Children, Youth and Families. The funding will support research efforts of
the Boone Fetter Clinic and the Institute for the Developing Mind to... Read More
Published on October 10, 2017
Investigators identify pathway that causes immune cells to
support cancer, instead of killing itInvestigators
at the
Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases
at Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles have identified new findings about an immune cell – called a
tumor-... Read More
Published on October 6, 2017
New Biomarker Assay Detects Neuroblastoma with Greater Sensitivity
Investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have developed and tested a new biomarker assay for quantifying disease and detecting the presence of neuroblastoma even when... Read More
Published on August 28, 2017
A Celebration and Seminar Honoring Robert C. Seeger, MD
A special celebration and research seminar
honoring Robert C. Seeger, MD, was held at the Saban Research
Institute on August 23, 2017. Seeger, who joined CHLA in 1989 as research
director in the Division of... Read More
Published on August 15, 2017
Study uses fMRI to observe
relationship between neurological activity and risk for obesityA team of researchers,
including senior investigator, Bradley Peterson, MD, director of the Institute
for the Developing Mind at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, used fMRI to
investigate... Read More
Published on June 29, 2017
Two physicians examine the challenges and benefits of using an age-old practice to toilet train their infant daughter You know that disposable diapers are ecologically questionable, but cloth diapers seem too messy for you and your child – is there an alternative?The answer is ‘... Read More
Published on May 16, 2017
Signal processing technique improves analysis
of ultrasonic vocalizationsVocalization
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 sexes... Read More
Published on April 27, 2017
Christopher
Russell, MD, a hospitalist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles specializing
in pediatric patients with tracheostomies, noticed that many of these children
have a high percentage of being re-admitted to the hospital for respiratory
conditions. A tracheostomy is a... Read More
Published on April 21, 2017
Willowbrook State School, Staten Island, NY 50 years ago, children with developmental disabilities such
as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were routinely institutionalized
because families were ill-equipped to care for them.Today, thanks to research funded in part by the... Read More
Published on April 20, 2017
In 1963, the death
of baby Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who was born 5 ½ weeks premature and died
from respiratory distress syndrome,
gripped the nation. At that time,
medicine had very little to offer premature babies with respiratory distress,
but baby Patrick’s death put a... Read More
Published on April 20, 2017
Twenty years ago, a child with inflammatory
arthritis had a very different life than a child with that same disease has
today. In 1997, that child suffered from chronic pain and lack of mobility that
kept them homebound – unable to go to school, have the opportunity to make... Read More