Category Archives: In the News

Demand Increasing for National Melanoma Screening Program and more…

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Some interesting news related to Memorial Sloan Kettering…..

  • Currently, the position of a number of organizations is that guidelines for population-based screening for melanoma are not needed since there is no clinical trial evidence of a benefit.  However, at a meeting of the Hawaii Dermatology Seminar, Dr. Allan C. Halpern, Chief of the Dermatology Service at MSK, reported that there is an increase in the demand for screening for melanoma.  There has been a dramatic increase in new cases of melanoma.  Dr. Halpern says there may be a million people in the US. who have had melanoma who need follow-up  visits and their family members need to be tested as well. Continue reading →

Milestone for PNAS, Support for Funding and the Latest in Cancer Research

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Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

  • Happy 100th birthday to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! To celebrate the milestone, key papers of the past century will be highlighted as well as a timeline of significant moments in PNAS history.
  • Congress displays support of roughly $32 billion in NIH funding for 2015.
  • Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a biomarker CD61 responsible for tumor metastasis. Findings are published in Nature Cell Biology.
  • A new study conducted in mice has implicated a single type of cell, in the lining of the bladder, as responsible for most cases of invasive bladder cancer. Research was conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine and also published in Nature Cell Biology.
  • A new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins links chronic prostate inflammation with the development of prostate cancer. Findings are published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
  • AML is one of most aggressive types of leukemia. Now researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a gene within a gene that contributes to the aggressiveness of the disease.  Research results are published in Science Signaling.

Please feel free to contact Marisol Hernandez for comments on the latest cancer research news.

 

News From Blogland

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Zotero, the free citation manager is on fire this month with announcements of new funding for two major projects. The first project will see Zotero expanding to work with institutional repositories thanks to funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and collaboration from two universities. Secondly, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a project researching altmetrics and expanding their API enabling bibliometric research and integration into third-party apps. In addition to these exciting ventures, Zotero has also announced that accounts with unlimited storage space are now being offered for an annual fee!

USA Today, among many others, reported on tensions surrounding net neutrality.

A study by the UK Department for Media & Sport shows that visiting libraries and other cultural institutions is “significantly” associated with life satisfaction.  Their study estimates that the monetary value of library use is around $2200 a year!