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Finding

Study in Mice Suggests Lactose in the Diet Feeds Dangerous Gut Bacteria When the Immune System Is Compromised

By Julie Grisham

Lab mice who had lactose removed from their diets had a decreased risk of infection with the Enterococcus bacterium.

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Illustration of Enterococcus

In the Lab

Bull’s-Eye: Imaging Technology Could Confirm When a Drug Is Going to the Right Place

By Julie Grisham

Collaborative team advances a new approach for imaging a drug that’s been developed to stop cancer growth.

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Illustration of how PU-PET localizes to tumors

Q & A

Meet Maria Jasin, an Award-Winning Biologist Who Studies DNA Repair

By Julie Grisham

Maria Jasin, a member of the Sloan Kettering Institute’s Developmental Biology Program, discusses her research.

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Michel Talagrand, Maria Jasin, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, and Edward Stone

In the Lab

How Stem Cells Decide Their Fate

By Julie Grisham

Research in blood stem cells has revealed new information about how these cells decide what to become when they divide.

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An illustration of two teapots with liquid flowing into various cups

In the Lab

Scientists Develop a Tool to Watch a Single Gene Being Transcribed in a Living Cell

By Julie Grisham

A new imaging technology developed at MSK allows researchers to focus on genes as they are copied into messenger RNA.

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Molecular image with target symbol

In the Lab

Drug That Hits CAR T Snooze Button Can Quiet a Cytokine Storm

By Matthew Tontonoz

An FDA-approved drug used to treat leukemia can serve as a temporary off switch for CAR T cells, MSK scientists have found.

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cartoon of man hitting a snooze button

In the Lab

Scientists Use CRISPR to Learn How Cells Make Decisions

By Matthew Tontonoz

The genome-editing technique uncovered several genes previously not known to influence embryonic development.

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Fluorescent red and green cells

In the Lab

Research Clarifies How IDH Mutations Cause Cancer

By Julie Grisham

The MSK team’s goal was to get at the underlying defects in cells that these mutations cause.

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DNA winding around histones

In the Lab

Checkpoint Challenge: When Releasing Immune Cell Brakes Is Not Enough to Stop Cancer

By Matthew Tontonoz

Scientists have learned that cutting a T cell’s brakes can have unexpected consequences.

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Immune cells surrounding a cancer cell

In The Lab

Computational “Hive Mind” Helps Scientists Solve an Enzyme’s Cryptic Movements

By Matthew Tontonoz

The breakthrough gives an unprecedented look at the varied and shifting poses of a protein in action.

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Two clusters of colored blobs with a diagram in the middle