For the first time, scientists have shown how the activity of a gene associated with normal human development, as well as the occurrence of cancer and several other diseases, is repressed epigenetically – by modifying not the DNA code of a gene, but instead the spool-like histone proteins around which DNA tightly wraps itself in the nucleus of cells in the body.
Previous attempts in mice to correct a rare inherited immune disorder, called Hyper IgM X-linked immunodeficiency, have failed because standard gene therapy raised risks for cancer. Now Weill Cornell Medical College researchers believe they've found a way around that problem.
Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Report Findings of Phase I Clinical Trial of Monoclonal Antibody Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer.
The Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City voted today to establish the new Ansary Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics. The unique Center will bring together a premier team of scientists to focus on stem cells – the primitive, unspecialized cells thought to have an unrivaled capacity to form all types of cells in the body.
A certain combination of AIDS drugs is superior to others when it comes to the initial treatment of HIV patients, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center has discovered that the wonder drug tamoxifen can help breast cancer patients have babies - even after they experience fertility loss associated with chemotherapy.
Dr. Jean W. Pape, an internationally recognized infectious disease expert and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, has received France's highest distinction, the Legion d'Honneur, for his more-than-two-decades of work fighting disease in his native Haiti.
It doesn't take much imagination to see that preventing falls, brightening dark and depressing spaces, and generally making environments habitable can be among the most important elements for improving the health of the elderly.
The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan on April 19, at 11:30 a.m. at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
