- Biology Direct reflects on 7 years of open peer review.
- NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins discusses the impact of the sequester on biomedical research.
- The American College of Chest Physicians released updated lung cancer guidelines.
- Men who have sleep problems may have increased risk for prostate cancer.
Category Archives: In the News
Blog Buzz: May 12 – May 16
Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut whose tweets and videos from space have captured the public imagination, landed back on Earth this week. Overthinking It has an interesting post about his success at communicating science, which includes links to the great stuff Hadfield has been sharing from space.
Andrew Revkin of the NY Times wrote about his Stroke of Luck, which highlights how telemedicine can help in cases where specialists aren’t available.
Angelina Jolie’s editorial Tuesday created an opportunity for people to learn about BRCA genes and discuss risk, genetic testing and treatment options. Here are three posts from medical and science bloggers I recommend checking out:
In Angelina, BRCA, Mastectomies, etc…, Dr. Margaret Polaneczky hopes the star’s disclosure will help high-risk women decide to get tested and discusses what women need to know, saying: Continue reading
MSKCC in the News: April 25 – May 14
- Christopher Lima of MSKCC was selected to join the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Program.
- Gopa Iyer of MSKCC was awarded the James Family Young Investigator Award for “Identifying Predictors of Response to mTOR-targeted Therapies in Bladder Cancer.”
- Foundation Medicine and MSKCC announced a partnership that brings together clinical, genomic and computational expertise to advance patient care in hematologic cancers.
- Scientists from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and MSKCC published results in the journal Cell Stem Cell of a new model cell system that allows neuroscientists to investigate normal brain development, as well as to identify specific disruptions in biological signals that may contribute to neuropsychiatric diseases.
- Nature published findings from a large-scale genomic analysis led by researchers at MSKCC and other centers within The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network that may help diagnose endometrial cancer and lead to new drug development.
- MSKCC’s Dr. Kenneth Offit is quoted in an NPR article about Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preventive double mastecomy.