Sarah C. P. Williams | UCSC Magazine | May 2023
One day in 2018, UCSC Associate Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Olena Vaske received a large electronic file from doctors at Stanford Medicine. The file contained data on a toddler with a rare cancer in his liver and lungs. Other researchers had already sequenced the boy’s DNA—the genetic material he inherited from his parents—and found nothing that explained his disease. Standard chemotherapy had not stopped his tumors from growing, and his doctors were stumped about what to do next.
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