Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified definitive biological links between African ancestry and disease processes that affect an aggressive cancer type called triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Their analysis of TNBC tumors from...
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When fat accumulates in the liver, the immune system may assault the organ. A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine researchers identifies the molecule that trips these defenses, a discovery that helps to explain the dynamics underlying liver...
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Your Doppelgänger Is Out There and You Probably Share DNA With Them That person who looks just like you is not your twin, but if scientists compared your genomes, they might find a lot in common. By Kate Golembiewski Aug. 23, 2022 Charlie Chasen...
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Researchers Identify the Target of Immune Attacks on Liver Cells in Metabolic Disorders When fat accumulates in the liver, the immune system may assault the organ. A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine researchers identifies the molecule that...
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Novel Technique Provides Insights into Lung Pathology in COVID-19 Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian have used advanced technology and analytics to map, at single-cell resolution, the cellular landscape of diseased...
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We are pleased to introduce Grace Le, a student at Cornell Tech who spent several months at the beginning of the year working with our colleague Alex Sigaras, M.S., Assistant Professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics, and director of the...
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Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center researchers, in collaboration with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, have developed a new method to assess on a large scale the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, or how the genome...
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Immunotherapy unleashes the power of the immune system to fight cancer. However, for some patients, immunotherapy doesn’t work, and new research may help explain why. When immune cells called T lymphocytes infiltrate malignant tumors, the genetic...
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Spring 2022Dear Friend of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine,Welcome to our first quarterly newsletter of 2022!Thank you for signing-up on our website to receive this newsletter, we hope you enjoy learning more about the important...
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Three distinguished Weill Cornell Medicine physician-scientists, Dr. Joseph J. Fins, Dr. Rainu Kaushal and Dr. Shahin Rafii, have been elected to the esteemed Association of American Physicians (AAP). Regarded as one of the top honors in the...
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Dear Members of the Englander Institute,March was another very busy month for us, with important awards and honors for Drs. Anandasabapathy, Ocean, Faltas and Hajirasouliha, well done! We also generated a lot of news media coverage, participated...
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6 Biotech Breakthroughs of 2021 That Missed the Attention They Deserved News about COVID-19 continues to relentlessly dominate as Omicron surges around the globe. Yet somehow, during the pandemic’s exhausting twists and turns, progress in...
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