Research Blog

Published on February 4, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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