Journey Stories: How Science and Technology Beats Cancer

NY Times recently published a wonderful and amazing story on how doctors from Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) applied  next-gen sequencing technologies to identify genetic cause of leukemia and defeat it with modern medicine and passion.

Genetic Gamble: In Treatment for Leukemia, Glimpses of the Future

On a related story from WashU Genome Institute website, the first application of NGS towards discovery of cancer genes was detailed:

Cancer Genomics: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)