A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Our latest preprint identifies (targetable!) metabolic programs intrinsic to different cancer cell states in rhabdomyosarcoma, out just in time for @katrinaparas.bsky.social's thesis defense tomorrow!
PAX3-FOXO1 drives targetable cell state-dependent metabolic vulnerabilities in rhabdomyosarcoma https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.15.633227v1
January 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Our latest preprint identifies (targetable!) metabolic programs intrinsic to different cancer cell states in rhabdomyosarcoma, out just in time for @katrinaparas.bsky.social's thesis defense tomorrow!
This brave child fought cancer & ICE.
Her father should have never been in custody in the first case. Trump & Noem stole precious moments from them.
If you do not see how wrong this is, you have no soul.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
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Her father should have never been in custody in the first case. Trump & Noem stole precious moments from them.
If you do not see how wrong this is, you have no soul.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
March 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
This brave child fought cancer & ICE.
Her father should have never been in custody in the first case. Trump & Noem stole precious moments from them.
If you do not see how wrong this is, you have no soul.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Her father should have never been in custody in the first case. Trump & Noem stole precious moments from them.
If you do not see how wrong this is, you have no soul.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Rhabdomyosarcoma?
November 22, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Rhabdomyosarcoma?
"Blue Bloods" actor and comedian Alex Duong recently died at 42 after a year-long battle with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer.
Rhabdomyosarcoma, the rare cancer that killed 'Blue Bloods' actor, explained
"Blue Bloods" actor and comedian Alex Duong recently died at 42 after a year-long battle with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer.
bit.ly
March 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM
"Blue Bloods" actor and comedian Alex Duong recently died at 42 after a year-long battle with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer.
November 30, 2024 at 2:22 PM
I’m happy to share our published work in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! With zebrafish modeling of rhabdomyosarcoma, we showed that PAX3::FOXO1 utilizes homeobox motif recognition to initially bind closed DNA and activate neural programs present in the human disease. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Rhabdomyosarcoma fusion oncoprotein initially pioneers a neural signature in vivo
Kucinski et al. use embryonic zebrafish modeling to understand initial chromatin regulatory
mechanisms of fusion-driven pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma. They found that the PAX3::FOXO1
oncoprotein function...
www.cell.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I’m happy to share our published work in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! With zebrafish modeling of rhabdomyosarcoma, we showed that PAX3::FOXO1 utilizes homeobox motif recognition to initially bind closed DNA and activate neural programs present in the human disease. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Evie Owens was diagnosed with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma after slipping in a puddle and experiencing pain for weeks after the accident
Girl diagnosed with cancer after slipping in puddle dreams of princess prom
Evie Owens was diagnosed with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma after slipping in a puddle and experiencing pain for weeks after the accident
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
September 30, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Evie Owens was diagnosed with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma after slipping in a puddle and experiencing pain for weeks after the accident
Children’s Hospital DC gave my daughter six more years of life after a devastating diagnosis of stage IV Rhabdomyosarcoma that had metastasized in her bone marrow by the time it was diagnosed. Got her cancer-free for a while, too. We practically lived there at times. Fetterman can suck it.
September 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Children’s Hospital DC gave my daughter six more years of life after a devastating diagnosis of stage IV Rhabdomyosarcoma that had metastasized in her bone marrow by the time it was diagnosed. Got her cancer-free for a while, too. We practically lived there at times. Fetterman can suck it.
HUGE congrats to former lab member and all-round excellent human @jjalston.bsky.social for being awarded an ALSF Young Investigator Grant!!! 🥳
www.alexslemonade.org/where-money-...
www.alexslemonade.org/where-money-...
Engineering Peptides that Target Disordered Regions in PAX3-FOXO1–Positive Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma
Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is an aggressive childhood cancer, and many children with this disease carry a mutation that combines two different proteins, PAX3 and FOXO1, into one protein, PAX3-FOXO1. Th...
www.alexslemonade.org
August 21, 2026 at 4:11 PM
HUGE congrats to former lab member and all-round excellent human @jjalston.bsky.social for being awarded an ALSF Young Investigator Grant!!! 🥳
www.alexslemonade.org/where-money-...
www.alexslemonade.org/where-money-...
My daughter is a survivor of Stage 3 Rhabdomyosarcoma. She will have lifelong side effects from the treatment. Cutting this funding is ghoulish.
December 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
My daughter is a survivor of Stage 3 Rhabdomyosarcoma. She will have lifelong side effects from the treatment. Cutting this funding is ghoulish.
We looked at this in rhabdomyosarcoma a few years ago. Hydrostatic pressure from blebbing can force cancer cells into other regions (metastasis) and got really excited when we found a small molecular signature for it.
Wrote up a grant that I was really proud of and excited, which got triaged.
Wrote up a grant that I was really proud of and excited, which got triaged.
Four cancer cells displaying continuous membrane blebbing videoed through a DIC microscope. No, these cells are not dying. #CellBiology
September 26, 2026 at 11:19 PM
We looked at this in rhabdomyosarcoma a few years ago. Hydrostatic pressure from blebbing can force cancer cells into other regions (metastasis) and got really excited when we found a small molecular signature for it.
Wrote up a grant that I was really proud of and excited, which got triaged.
Wrote up a grant that I was really proud of and excited, which got triaged.
A 2-year-old boy from London who was the youngest person to be treated using Nanoknife technology is now free of rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue cancer in his liver & bile duct.
🧪🧬⚡ #medsky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🧪🧬⚡ #medsky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Youngest cancer patient treated with Nanoknife is cancer-free
Two-year-old George, from Camden, is the youngest person in the world to have the procedure.
www.bbc.com
December 28, 2024 at 9:43 AM
A 2-year-old boy from London who was the youngest person to be treated using Nanoknife technology is now free of rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue cancer in his liver & bile duct.
🧪🧬⚡ #medsky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🧪🧬⚡ #medsky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Transdifferentiation of endothelial progenitor cells into rhabdomyosarcoma defined by hedgehog signaling competence: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Latest from @hatleylab.bsky.social
Latest from @hatleylab.bsky.social
Transdifferentiation of endothelial progenitor cells into rhabdomyosarcoma defined by hedgehog signaling competence
Gadek et al. show that embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma formation is defined by the presence
of primary cilia and limits SHH pathway competency in early endothelial progenitor
cells that disappear during em...
www.cell.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Transdifferentiation of endothelial progenitor cells into rhabdomyosarcoma defined by hedgehog signaling competence: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Latest from @hatleylab.bsky.social
Latest from @hatleylab.bsky.social
Myogenesis gone awry: the role of developmental pathways in rhabdomyosarcoma
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
Frontiers | Myogenesis gone awry: the role of developmental pathways in rhabdomyosarcoma
www.frontiersin.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Myogenesis gone awry: the role of developmental pathways in rhabdomyosarcoma
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
A novel arene osmium(ii) complex as an effective rhabdomyosarcoma cancer stem cell agent - now published in InorgChemFront in collaboration with Viktor Brabec pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Congrats to all the co-authors.
A novel benzothiazole-1,2,3-triazole-based arene osmium(II) complex as an effective rhabdomyosarcoma cancer stem cell agent
We designed a series of pseudo-octahedral arene Os(ii) complexes (Os1–Os5) with the general formula [(η6-p-cym)Os(BTAT)Cl]+, where BTAT represents chelating N^N′ ligands based on the 1-aryl-4-benzothi...
pubs.rsc.org
January 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A novel arene osmium(ii) complex as an effective rhabdomyosarcoma cancer stem cell agent - now published in InorgChemFront in collaboration with Viktor Brabec pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Congrats to all the co-authors.
You will administer the cider vinegar and vitamins in the rhabdomyosarcoma bungalow.
February 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You will administer the cider vinegar and vitamins in the rhabdomyosarcoma bungalow.
My dad passed away from a six year battle with brain cancer. My youngest grandson is in remission from Rhabdomyosarcoma a rare childhood soft tissue cancer.
August 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
My dad passed away from a six year battle with brain cancer. My youngest grandson is in remission from Rhabdomyosarcoma a rare childhood soft tissue cancer.
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that develops in skeletal muscles, according to a family spokesperson.
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that develops in skeletal muscles, according to a family spokesperson.
This is heartbreaking. There aren't enough words to describe the monsters that kept this father from his dying daughter.
February 21, 2026 at 2:23 PM
This is heartbreaking. There aren't enough words to describe the monsters that kept this father from his dying daughter.
Now online! PAX translocations remodel mitochondrial metabolism through altered leucine usage in rhabdomyosarcoma
PAX translocations remodel mitochondrial metabolism through altered leucine usage in rhabdomyosarcoma
By using an engineered human-iPSC-derived muscle progenitor model, it is shown that PAX fusion transcription factors remodel 3D chromatin maps and transcriptional circuits to activate oncogenes and drive mitochondrial OXPHOS in high-risk rhabdomyosarcoma.
dlvr.it
April 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Now online! PAX translocations remodel mitochondrial metabolism through altered leucine usage in rhabdomyosarcoma
In my urgent head & neck clinic recently I saw kids with rhabdomyosarcoma, orbital abscess post transnasal orbital decompression, laryngomalacia, mucocoele, mycobacterium avium complex, vascular anomaly, retropharyngeal abscess, parotid tumour… 1/2 #ENTsecrets #ENT #surgery #surgeon
September 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
In my urgent head & neck clinic recently I saw kids with rhabdomyosarcoma, orbital abscess post transnasal orbital decompression, laryngomalacia, mucocoele, mycobacterium avium complex, vascular anomaly, retropharyngeal abscess, parotid tumour… 1/2 #ENTsecrets #ENT #surgery #surgeon
CDK8 Inhibition Releases the Muscle Differentiation Block in Fusion-driven Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma - by Susu Zhang, Kathleen Engel, Corinne Linardic, Kim Stegmaier, and colleagues @danafarber.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org doi.org/10.1158/2159...
CDK8 Inhibition Releases the Muscle Differentiation Block in Fusion-driven Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma
Abstract. Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (aRMS) is a fusion-driven pediatric cancer with poor survival and limited therapeutic options. To uncover novel vulnerabilities, we employed complex-based analysis ...
doi.org
July 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM
CDK8 Inhibition Releases the Muscle Differentiation Block in Fusion-driven Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma - by Susu Zhang, Kathleen Engel, Corinne Linardic, Kim Stegmaier, and colleagues @danafarber.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org doi.org/10.1158/2159...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Heartbreaking
Ofelia Torres fought so gallantly hard while suffering the horrors of cancer
In Chicago, during the ICE ATTACKS
She testified so that the judge ruled her father's rights were violated
Her dad, Ruben won & was there when Ofel passed
So sorry 🙏😪
Heartbreaking
Ofelia Torres fought so gallantly hard while suffering the horrors of cancer
In Chicago, during the ICE ATTACKS
She testified so that the judge ruled her father's rights were violated
Her dad, Ruben won & was there when Ofel passed
So sorry 🙏😪
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Heartbreaking
Ofelia Torres fought so gallantly hard while suffering the horrors of cancer
In Chicago, during the ICE ATTACKS
She testified so that the judge ruled her father's rights were violated
Her dad, Ruben won & was there when Ofel passed
So sorry 🙏😪
Heartbreaking
Ofelia Torres fought so gallantly hard while suffering the horrors of cancer
In Chicago, during the ICE ATTACKS
She testified so that the judge ruled her father's rights were violated
Her dad, Ruben won & was there when Ofel passed
So sorry 🙏😪
I’ll never understand how people believe that power insulates them from biology. You can be the richest, most powerful mfer in the world, with access to the world’s finest doctors, and glioblastoma, or rhabdomyosarcoma, or diabetes, or heart disease, or sepsis can still kill you or your loved ones.
Today, US Senator Jim Banks (R) was approached by a fired HHS employee. He told the employee that he “probably deserved to be fired” and that the employee “looks like a clown”. This is what the entire Republican party thinks of HHS workers. Video in article. www.nbcnews.com/video/fmr-hh...
Fmr. HHS employee confronts senator
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
www.nbcnews.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I’ll never understand how people believe that power insulates them from biology. You can be the richest, most powerful mfer in the world, with access to the world’s finest doctors, and glioblastoma, or rhabdomyosarcoma, or diabetes, or heart disease, or sepsis can still kill you or your loved ones.