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Cornell researchers have for the first time successfully imaged the entire depth of the lymph nodes in a living mouse using three-photon microscopy. The breakthrough technique’s micrometer clarity and noninvasive nature... Read more

A highly portable and rapid prostate cancer screening kit could provide early warning to populations with higher incidence of prostate cancer and particularly those with limited access to health care, such as African... Read more

Depleting copper levels may reduce the production of energy that cancer cells need to travel and establish themselves in other parts of the body by a process referred to as metastasis, according to a new study by... Read more

Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified significant differences in the molecular characteristics of tumors from younger and older cancer patients across several cancer types. Their research, published Dec. 7... Read more

Treatment with arginine, one of the amino-acid building blocks of proteins, enhanced the effectiveness of radiation therapy in cancer patients with brain metastases, in a proof-of-concept, randomized clinical trial from... Read more

A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the New York Genome Center , Harvard Medical School , Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has profiled in unprecedented detail... Read more

Multiplex immunofluorescence image of immune cell-infiltrated human colorectal cancer. Tumor cells are labeled with PKCi (magenta), immune cells are labeled with CD8 (red) and nuclei in white. Image courtesy of Dr. Jorge... Read more

A team co-led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine has revealed in detail how the most common primary eye cancer in adults, uveal melanoma (UM), can progress from a slow-growing, “indolent” state to a lethal metastasizing... Read more

Left: Low and high magnification images of small intestine from healthy mice treated with water or high-fructose corn syrup for 4 weeks. Right: Schematic illustrating how fructose promotes cell survival and increased villi... Read more