MSKCC in the News: April 19 – May 2

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Mark

MSKCC’s Dr. Peter Scardino comments on Warren Buffet’s decision to undergo radiation therapy for stage 1 prostate cancer.
Marlo Thomas in an article in the Huffington Post, asked some of the top cancer scientists, including MSKCC’s Dr. Charles Sawyers, what makes them optimistic about the ongoing battle with cancer.
On January 17, 2012, the Systems Biology Discussion Group gathered at the New York Academy of Sciences for the Single-Cell Level Systems Biology symposium. Grégoire Altan-Bonnet from MSKCC described new ways of using flow cytommetry, eg Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS), to characterize signal transduction pathways.

MSKCC in the News: April 5 – April 18

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Mark

MSKCC’s website has been nominated for The Webby Award.
In an article in the medical journal Annals of Surgical Oncology, researchers at MSKCC report on using the proteins that make fireflies glow as a tracer to guide surgical removal of mesothelioma cells.

MSKCC in the News: March 22 – April 4

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Mark

MSKCC’s Dr. Larry Norton writes in The Huffington Post about the collaboration between IBM and MSKCC in applying Watson technology to help oncologists.
Researchers from MSKCC contributed to a study that found that a noninvasive scan might someday help doctors track the progress of prostate cancer and help guide treatment.