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the Bridges team at dinner
Q&A
Learn more about Memorial Sloan Kettering’s newsletter for cancer survivors, which is celebrating its tenth year of publication.
Omar Abdel-Wahab
Feature
The word “epigenetic” literally means “above the genes.” Calico cats demonstrate a type of epigenetic inheritance called X-inactivation.
Large cells filled with yellow-colored fat
Finding
Cancer Cells Eat Fat to Grow and Spread
Research conducted in zebrafish shows that melanoma cells have an affinity for fat, and that eating it makes them more aggressive.
Urology Service Chief James Eastham talks to a patient
Q&A
Learn why surgery remains a very effective treatment for most prostate cancers.
Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of T lymphocyte cells (blue) attached to a red cancer cell.
Finding
A newly identified group of immunosuppressive cells could provide insight into the effects of immunotherapy drugs.
Young girl wearing pink sits with her mother
Feature
Meet the four young ambassadors featured in the annual Stop & Shop campaign to fundraise for the Department of Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Andrew Kung with pediatric leukemia researcher Melvyn Greaves
Honors
Childhood leukemia expert Melvyn Greaves received The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Prize at the 2018 Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) commencement.
Blue cells containing small red and green dots on a black background
In the Lab
Multiple copies of a gene called <em>YES1</em> appear to be responsible for certain precision drugs losing their effectiveness.
This study demonstrates how clonal hematopoiesis (CH)–derived mutations could lead to erroneous reporting and treatment recommendations when tumor-only sequencing is employed. If data about the blood are not part of test results, mutations present in the blood may be misread as mutations in the tumor, which can potentially affect the therapies patients receive. Data presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology by Ahmet Zehir, PhD, Director of Clinical Bioinformatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) was simultaneously published in <i>JAMA Oncology</i> on June 5.
Bioinformatician Ahmet Zehir stands at a whiteboard
Finding
A blood condition related to aging can lead to misinterpreting tumor data.