Category: Latest Research
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City of Hope Study Shows Childhood Cancer Survivors Face New Health Problems Later in Life
LOS ANGELES — Researchers at City of Hope®, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States with its National Medical Center ranked among the nation’s top cancer centers by U.S. News & World Report, today published a new study which found that some survivors of childhood cancer are…
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Cracking the code behind hearing loss
2025 Phoenix KEYS intern Ayana Jain (she/her) worked in the lab of Isabelle Schrauwen and studied the genetic causes of rare hearing conditions that begin before birth. In the lab of Isabelle Schrauwen, associate professor of translational neurosciences at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, scientists study the genetic causes of rare hearing conditions that begin…
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Researchers identify a potential biomarker for long COVID
Extracellular vesicles in study participants contain SARS-CoV-2 peptides PHOENIX, Ariz. (August 11, 2025) — Researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, and the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center have identified a potential biomarker for long COVID. If the findings of their study are confirmed by other research centers, the biomarker could…
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CoLab Meeting from 7/16/25
Held at 850 Phoenix Bioscience Core (PBC) in the Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation (CEI) space, lab managers, techs, and operators share resources, solve problems, and drive innovation across the PBC ecosystem. CoLab is focusing on relationship building, peer-to-peer sharing, supporting and accepting help, learning something new, identifying shared assets, and sparking collaborations. The most recent…
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Governor Hobbs Announces Arizona Tech Week 2026
State’s first-ever decentralized tech conference will showcase Arizona’s technology leadership With billions in new investment, a surge of startups and venture activity, and a deep pool of skilled talent, Arizona’s innovation economy is scaling fast — and the world is taking notice. Today, Governor Hobbs and the Arizona Commerce Authority, in partnership with the Arizona…
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Connecting biology to better heart treatments
2025 Phoenix KEYS intern Adi Tyagi (he/him) studied how female and male heart tissue reacts to stress and inflammation in the lab of Taben Hale. 2025 Phoenix KEYS intern Adi Tyagi (right) from Chaparral High School worked with postdoctoral researcher Ashton Jorgensen (left) and research specialist Dana Floyd (right) to understand how high blood pressure…
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Study reveals impact of undiagnosed endometriosis on young women, girls
Early onset endometriosis is often dismissed, ASU researchers find, causing physical and emotional distress ASU researchers found that many young women and girls who have endometriosis — some as young as 8 — are dismissed or misdiagnosed for years due to their age. Photo courtesy of iStock/Getty Images A new study has uncovered the prevalence of undiagnosed…
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Inside KEYS 2025 and the next generation of Arizona science
Armed with curiosity and lab coats, the 2025 Class of the KEYS Research Internship didn’t just observe science; they shaped it. Read 12 of their stories. 2025 Tuscon KEYS intern Azani Anderson helps collect plant root samples at the University Arizona Campus Agricultural Center. Lily Howe, BIO5 Institute Through the BIO5 Institute’s KEYS Research Internship this…
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ASU teams up with Phoenix Children’s to help kids with painful inflammatory bowel diseases
Study uses bacteria to help doctors find better ways to diagnose Graphic by Richard Holland/ASU About 2.7 million people in the U.S. live with inflammatory bowel diseases, which cause long-term inflammation in the digestive system. The number of children diagnosed with these conditions, like Crohn’s disease, is rising faster than in adults, but the reasons…
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Study reveals a novel immune-based therapy that may be effective in hard-to-treat lung cancers
Findings suggest that the patients themselves produce molecules that could reawaken their immune system to battle lung cancer A study published today by researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, and clinician-scientists at Baylor Scott & White Research Institute revealed a potential new therapeutic strategy for fighting lung cancer that harnesses one…
