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Graduates and speakers pose on a stage
Event
Degrees were presented and awards were given at the 38th annual ceremony held on May 18.
Blue cells containing small red dots on a green and black background
Science Byte
Learn about what DNA repair looks like under a microscope.
Scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute are learning why some immune cells are stubbornly hard to revive with immunotherapy.
In the Lab
By looking at how DNA is packaged in cells, scientists are teasing apart a long-standing conundrum about the immune response to cancer.
MSK Symposium Honors Dinshaw Patel, Titan of Structural Biology
Announcement
Scientists came to MSK to celebrate the 75th birthday of a leader in the field of structural biology.
Cancer biologist and pediatric oncologist Alex Kentsis
In the Lab
Researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism that may trigger most childhood cancers.
Mount Rushmore viewed through face-detection software.
Taking a cue from smartphone technology, scientists are using face-recognition algorithms to improve RNA interference.
Grey T lymphocytes
Finding
A team at MSK uncovered how TRX518, a new immunotherapy drug in early development, works in the body.
Wearable device on woman’s arm with labels indicating beams going into nanotubes and coming back out for analysis.
In the Lab
Learn how tiny sensors made of nanotubes could serve as implantable devices that offer a noninvasive way to monitor cancer and its treatments.
Adrienne Boire at the lab bench
In the Lab
Research is providing new clues about how cancer spreads to spinal fluid, a condition called leptomeningeal metastasis.
Molecular biologist John Petrini of the Sloan Kettering Institute.
Feature
Scientists know that cancer can result from mistakes in DNA repair. But understanding what controls the repair process itself has been a hard nut to crack.