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Pictured: Macrophage & Tumor Cells
Turning to Bacteria for Cancer Clues
Approaches used for research into the social lives of bacteria can also be used to explore how tumors behave and evolve.
Pictured: Scott Callahan, Ken Marians, Lorenz Studer & Richard White
Second-Year Student Scott Callahan Awarded Melanoma Research Grant
Scott Callahan is the second Gerstner Sloan Kettering student to receive the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation grant, which supports exceptional melanoma research by graduate students.
Pictured: Shefali Krishna & Chong Luo
Gerstner Sloan Kettering Will Hold Its Third Biennial Retreat
GSK's Third Biennial Retreat, April 25-26, will feature clinician-scientist Todd R. Golub in Skytop, Pennsylvania.
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Pictured: Craig Thompson & Paul Marks
Memorial Sloan Kettering President Emeritus Paul Marks Publishes Memoir about His Life in Cancer Research
Former leader of Memorial Sloan Kettering Paul Marks gives a compelling view of cancer research and treatment over the past 40 years in <em>On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution</em>.
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Pictured: Human cell nucleus
Not So Fast: Dividing Cells Use a “Speed Limit” to Avoid Genetic Mistakes
The discovery of a molecular process that slows down cell division could provide new understanding about how some cancers develop.
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Pictured: Daniel Heller
Tiny Solutions for Big Problems: A Visit to the Lab of Daniel Heller
Learn about Daniel Heller, who creates new nanoscale materials that are specially designed to improve biological research or solve clinical problems.
Decoder
Blood vessels supply tumors with the nutrients they need to grow.
What Is Angiogenesis?
Cancer biologist Robert Benezra explains angiogenesis, the process by which new blood vessels form, and how it relates to cancer research.
In the Lab
Pictured: Cancer cell on blood vessel
Holding On and Hiding Out: How Cancer Cells Spread to the Brain and Thrive
Researchers have gained new understanding of how tumors metastasize by studying the behavior of exceptional breast and lung cancer cells that are capable of entering the brain and surviving there.
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Pictured: Jedd Wolchok & Alexander Rudensky
Memorial Sloan Kettering Shares Historic Gift to Fund Immunotherapy Research
Immunologist Alexander Rudensky and medical oncologist and immunologist Jedd Wolchok are investigating innovative ways to use the immune system to fight cancer.
In the Lab
Pictured: Stem cell-derived nerve cells exposed to progerin
Researchers Fast-Forward Stem Cell Aging to Study Degenerative Diseases
A team of Memorial Sloan Kettering scientists has come up with an approach to make stem-cell-derived neurons rapidly age in a cell culture dish. The breakthrough could transform research into Parkinson’s and other late-onset diseases.