A new Science study in mice identifies chromatin plasticity as a novel form of plasticity important for information encoding. Learn more ⬇️ 📄: scim.ag/7Z7 #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/7Z8

Eight cancer doctors among the 62 dead on doomed Brazil flight apple.news/AO6v--0DDQTm0f…

This is a fantastic mentored opportunity!!! We would love to have an NRG Oncology HE fellow focused on head and neck cancer, where rurality, access, and age remain major barriers to achieving the best outcomes for everyone. Full details: nrgoncology.org/Portals/0/Scie…

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I would love to see a meaningful change made. The Olympic closing ceremony should hand over to the Paralympics. Nothing else. The Paralympic closing ceremony should then be the moment and the stage to hand over to the next host city.

Delighted to share our latest research published in Cancer Cell Cell. Our study shows that intratumoral administration of IL-21 engineered NK cells resulted in strong and sustained antitumor activity against glioblastoma compared to IL-15 NK cells, which carried significant

Genetic tests can avoid toxicity of drugs and save lives. In the UK the one for 5-FU is mandated; in the US it's a safety label latimes.com/opinion/story/… L.A. Times Opinion

Proud to share our work compiling the landscape of funded #RadOnc away rotations for medical students! Pls RT to spread the word to help out budding #RadOncs! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Aging in humans in non-linear. Incredible Nature Aging study by Michael Snyder, PhD. nature.com/articles/s4358… Coincidentally the 1st wave of deregulation occurs at ~44 years, which also happens to be the median age of receiving the 1st R01 for many investigators. Grant writing 👉🏽 Aging

MD Anderson and Rice University are leading a research team to develop an affordable system for immediate digital pathology of tumors during surgery. Learn more about this collaboration: bit.ly/3WMJplT Ana Paula Refinetti Rice University #EndCancer

Radiation therapy followed by intrathecal trastuzumab and pertuzumab for HER2+ breast leptomeningeal disease is safe with initial intracranial control results that appear encouraging. ja.ma/4fAaPDY Kamran Ahmed Moffitt Cancer Center

A bittersweet day to move in my freshman to college, and report in Nature Metabolism the liver tumor suppressor LIFR orchestrates cholesterol-driven bidirectional hepatocyte-neutrophil crosstalk to facilitate #liver injury repair & #regeneration. Thx Hao Zhu Lab nature.com/articles/s4225…

A new review on obesity The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance… Ildiko Lingvay Priya Sumithran

One of the first decentralized clinical trials was led by Scripps Research Translational Institute several years ago jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… Today Science Magazine there's an outstanding review of the field science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Dr. Azizi Seixas Girardin Jean-Louis

Disrespect doesn’t just make people feel bad. It leads them to perform worse. Evidence from medical teams: Even a single insult decreases the quality of diagnoses and procedures. Rudeness disrupts focus and undermines collaboration. Civility is not optional. It’s vital.

Positive or negative? The devil is in the details. Pt select, EGFR/ALK status (Asian), SABR BED/delivery, timing/sequence change biology of RT/IO interactions. Not all RT is created equal. Issue becomes more complicated when IO involved. AI-guided personalized approach needed.

Sharing our newest paper by the talented Mihir Shanker presenting the treatment of the the often deadly RCC IVC thrombus. Utilizing a 1.5 MRI linac we were able to effectively align high dose radiation to what is otherwise a CT invisible lesion doi.org/10.1002/bco2.4…

Keytruda combined with SBRT was associated with higher rates of adverse events (AEs), including AEs leading to death, compared with SBRT and placebo. #radonc finance.yahoo.com/news/merck-pul…

Hugely good news for The Department of Breast Radiation Oncology MD Anderson Cancer Center!!! Welcome!!!

Who closes a major highway downtown on a Saturday night without posting the diversion signs to allow people to avoid it? John Whitmire Needless risk and hardship.