Weill Cornell Medicine's Englander Institute for Precision Medicine is a large multi-disciplinary institute that uses precision medicine technologies and informatics to uncover the molecular mechanisms of disease and individualize disease treatment and prevention.
Dear Members of the Englander Institute,
Thank you all for a very productive April!
A team co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center has developed an advanced method for revealing how gene mutations disrupt the normal packaging of DNA. These structural changes, which alter patterns of gene activity in a cell, are known as epigenetic changes and can lead to malignancy.
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, is on the rise. But there's a silver lining as this increase might be partly due to earlier detection. The use of Dermoscopy, a handheld device which allows closer surveillance of the organization of a mole or lesion, has greatly facilitated in detection of melanomas and moles that are dysplastic/or atypical. This device allows doctors to see the intricate structure of moles, helping identify suspicious ones.
