In the Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Department at St. Jude, Duane Currier and other scientists in the High-Throughput Bioscience Center use robots to automate the screening of hundreds of thousands of compounds to discover potential new drugs.
St. Jude patients recently named the newest robot, who now goes by Max. Patients also helped name the hospital’s other robots: Billy, Saver and Widget. Max allows scientists to capture images of cells on multiple channels while keeping the cells alive for long periods of time.
From Promise, Winter 2020
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Paws at Play: A Message from Puggle
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Minds Over Matter: St. Jude Research Collaboratives
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Soft Landings with the Transition Oncology Program
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LANDO Discovery Has Implications for Cancer Immunotherapy and Alzheimer’s Disease
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Sharing Data Worldwide
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Life after St. Jude: We are the Champions
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News & Highlights - Winter 2020
Learn about the latest discoveries and achievements at St. Jude: the structure of chaperones, flu vaccine news, exercise benefits, TOTAL 16 clinical trial for leukemia, 3D map of the genome, and more.