- Pnina Peled, the executive chef at MSKCC, was recently featured in a New York Times article.
- Agenus Inc. recently announced it has entered into a research agreement with MSKCC to test Agenus’ cancer vaccine in combination with antibodies that are intended to target specific markers on tumor cells, such as CTLA-4 and PDL-1.
- Dr. Paul Chapman, who led a trial for an experimental drug aimed at melanoma, was recently quoted in a New York Times article about the trial’s promising results.
Category Archives: In the News
Blog Buzz: January 15 – January 21
News from the information, life sciences, and oncology blogosphere:
- Bora at Scienceblogging.com has created a wonderful compendium of feeds from major science blog aggregators like Nature blogs and Science blogs. Check them out!
- MassGenomics continues its essay series on the biochemical impacts of cancer on various physiological systems: this week’s piece on cancer’s effects on the immune system is a detailed essay that clearly synthesizes research from a variety of labs into a readable article. Highly recommended.
- Human versus automated search: why people power is cool again.
- Therese Bevers MD answered frequently asked questions about menopause and cancer on KevinMD.
- An NCI study predicts that cancer care costs could hit $207 billion by 2020.
- The Scholarly Kitchen commented on a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that suggested that scientists do not properly cite prior studies in RCTs in order to boost claims of research novelty.
Blog Buzz: January 8 – January 14
Blog posts of interest from the science and medical information blogosphere:
- F.D.A to set limits on acetaminophen/opioid drug combinations. Too many overdoses by patients have led the agency to limit the amount of acetaminophen in each pill to no more than 325mg.
- The United Nations has declared 2011 The International Year of Chemistry.
- Have you seen the new National Library of Medicine homepage redesign? It has a new look based on analysis of users’ top tasks. Very nice!
- Another wonderfully insightful post from MassGenomics, this time summarizing a recent Science article on mechanisms by which cancer cells hijack cellular metabolism.
- 13 funders of scientific research issued a statement this week on the increased importance of research data sharing. The full statement is available on the Wellcome Trust’s website.