- The number of Americans who are cancer survivors are growing.
- Patients with NK/T-cell Lymphoma may benefit from a treatment that targets the JAK3 Gene.
- Research indicates that CT scans on children increase their risk of cancer.
- The path to personalized cancer medicine aided by genomic information is progressing.
Category Archives: In the News
MSKCC in the News: June 7 – June 13
- In an article recently published online in Nature Medicine, researchers from MSKCC and Weill Cornell Medical have described a new mechanism to control the metastasis of cancer that could potentially be used as a novel diagnostic tool and treatment option.
- A study by Travis H. Stracker, researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), in collaboration with scientists at MSKCC, reveals new information about the origin of tumors.
Blog Buzz: June 2 – June 8
Just some of the interesting items on Twitter and the blog-o-verse this week…
Bora Zivkovic’s video of the week at Scientific American is this amazing montage of the week’s Transit of Venus
A Success, And A Long Road Ahead from Kevin Smith at Duke on the petition to the White House for open access of publicly funded research reaching 25,000 signatures, and a related Op-Ed from the Washington Post on open access.
In what appears to have been an (automation?) error, Creative Commons licensed images were included in the paid resource Springer Images. Peter Murray Rust comments on his blog, followed by a statement from Springer.
OCLC has named Jack Blount their new CEO, see the story in Library Journal