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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

Cheryl Bonder had been living with a vaguely defined blood malignancy for years when her prognosis rapidly took a turn for the worse: her condition was progressing toward acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), an aggressive... Read more

An immune cell subset called innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) protects against colorectal cancer, in part by helping to maintain a healthy dialogue between the immune system and gut microbes, according to a new study led by... Read more

A powerful immune-suppressing molecule produced by the body may hold the key to better treatments for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, as well as for some cancers, according to a study by researchers at Weill Cornell... Read more

Treatment with a ready-made preparation of human immune cells helps prevent infections in people whose immune systems are temporarily weakened by leukemia treatment, according to a phase 2 clinical trial led by researchers... Read more

Single-cell RNA sequencing of prostate cells from mice with alterations in Pten, RB1 and MYCN identified 10 major cell subtypes and enabled researchers to study tumor heterogeneity with unprecedented resolution. Credit: Dr... Read more

A study from researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine identified economic and social conditions impacting individual and group differences in health status, known as social determinants of health, in... Read more

Two gene variants found in African American women may explain why they are more likely to be diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) than white women of European ancestry, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and... Read more

Dr. Marcin Imielinski , an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Dr. Elena Piskounova , an assistant professor of cell biology in dermatology, both at Weill Cornell Medicine, were awarded the 2021... Read more