Brittany Wenger isn’t your average high-school senior: She taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia. The 18-year-old student from Sarasota, Fla. built a custom, cloud-based “artificial neural network” to find patterns in genetic expression profiles to diagnose patients with an aggressive form of cancer called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL). Simply put, this means Wenger taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia by creating a diagnostic tool for doctors to use. Since artificial neural networks are programs

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(MLB.tv) A trip to the MLB Fan Cave in New York City to play Wiffle ball must have been fun enough for 13-year-old Nick D’Annibale, a seventh grader who happens to also be a survivor of leukemia. Just getting a chance to play in the street, semi-Willie Mays-style — to hit and pitch, with other baseball fans — some 18 months after being diagnosed, that alone made for a happy Friday. And then the ice

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Nick D’Annibale is a 13-year-old with leukemia who just about adores Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano. On May 17, he got to meet him. MLB.com (h/t Big Lead) has a full report on the beautiful moment when a young fan saw his sports hero come out from an ice cream truck to play some Wiffle ball. It all went down as D’Annibale, a New Jersey native who is recovering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, hung out

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Those old bottles, collecting dust in your garage could be going toward raising funds for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. Returns For Leukemia, held each May by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 12R24 in partnership with The Beer Store, raises money for the foundation and is set to take place at the Beer Store in Port Elgin May 24 and 25. Event organizer and Beer Store employee Andrea Little is asking Saugeen

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Those old bottles, collecting dust in your garage could be going toward raising funds for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. Returns For Leukemia, held each May by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 12R24 in partnership with The Beer Store, raises money for the foundation and is set to take place at the Beer Store in Port Elgin May 24 and 25. Event organizer and Beer Store employee Andrea Little is asking Saugeen

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Don’t let it get away! Keep track of the stocks that matter to you. Help yourself with the Fool’s FREE and easy new watchlist service today. Click Here Now As I noted 11 weeks ago, cancer statistics are both staggering and disappointing. Although cancer deaths per 100,000 people have been on the downswing since 1991 thanks to access to more effective medications and better awareness about the negative health effects of smoking, there is still

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Her parents say she danced her way through leukemia. On Friday night, a 4-year-old girl’s wish to dance with real ballerinas was granted. Charlotte Grimm, who is from Minnesota, got a chance to dance with real ballerinas at the Civic Theatre in downtown San Diego. In February of 2010, Charlotte was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. “She had had a couple unexplained high fevers and we took her into the pediatrician thinking she was just

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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – The Savannah chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is holding a benefit concert Friday night to raise funds in honor of a couple of young people who have battled blood cancers. The Country for a Cure concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Tubby’s in Thunderbolt. There will be live performers on the porch and more inside. The bands say they are going to play until they shut them down.

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Trey Roy’s family was devastated when he was diagnosed with leukemia in July 2011. The little boy from St. Albans has maintained a positive attitude throughout his ordeal and has inspired others with his charismatic personality. The last time Trey Roy appeared on 13 News he was on the sidelines at the football field at Hayes Middle School watching his friends with the Tornado Tigers on the field, wishing he could play. But nine months

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