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When mitochondria are exposed to tissue or blood, they lose the electrical gradient across their outer membrane. Mitochondria that lack such a gradient are recognized by a cell's internal machinery as damaged and quickly destroyed. The vast majority of previous studies involved injecting 'naked' mitochondria directly into the bloodstream or tissue sites, but the approach isn't very efficient, so researchers often have to use 'ridiculous' doses of mitochondria.

Dr. Bishop and Varmus showed that oncogenes - genes that cause cancer - are not foreign genes introduced into the body by viruses, as was widely believed at the time. Instead, normal versions of oncogenes are present in healthy cells, where they help regulate normal growth.

The revamped outpatient space folds in more infusion stations, extra exam rooms and added specialty clinics, which officials and neighborhood advocates hope will shrink travel times and long waits for patients across southern Brooklyn. The center now stretches South Brooklyn Health's outpatient cancer footprint with additional infusion bays, more exam rooms and extra clinical staff.

New findings on cancer survival rates offer hope for the more than 2 million Americans diagnosed each year. Seven out of 10 Americans diagnosed with cancer now survive five years or more, according to the American Cancer Society, a 7 percent increase since the mid-1990s, when the rate stood at 63 percent. The survival rate data - from patients diagnosed with cancer between 2015 and 2021 - showed, significantly, that those with high-mortality cancers and advanced diagnoses had the largest gains.

At the end of January, Washington, DC, saw an extremely unusual event. The MAHA Institute, which was set up to advocate for some of the most profoundly unscientific ideas of our time, hosted leaders of the best-funded scientific organization on the planet, the National Institutes of Health. Instead of a hostile reception, however, Jay Bhattacharya, the head of the NIH, was greeted as a hero by the audience, receiving a partial standing ovation when he rose to speak.

For years, scientists have viewed cancer as a localized glitch in which cells refuse to stop dividing. But a new study suggests that, in certain organs, tumors actively communicate with the brain to trick it into protecting them. Scientists have long known that nerves grow into some tumors and that tumors containing lots of nerves usually lead to a worse prognosis.

Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez has spent more than 10 years pursuing a goal that seemed very distant, but which he now sees as a little closer: to develop a preventive vaccine against cancer. The physician and researcher is leading a study that presented the first promising results of a colon cancer vaccine in a small group of patients suffering from a rare disease that makes them 17 times more likely to develop colon cancer than the general population.

CITYWIDE - NYU LANGONE HEALTH HAS APPOINTED DR. ANIRBAN MAITRA, a leader in gastrointestinal oncology, as the new director of its Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Maitra is a preeminent physician-scientist whose work has widely influenced the field of pancreatic cancer research. As the inaugural scientific director of the Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Dr. Maitra focused his work on early detection and biomarker development, considered two key avenues for effective cancer treatments.

I'm certainly confident that we're going to have a breakthrough within my career, and I have a good 10 to 15 years left. While antiretroviral (ARV) therapies are extending lives and keeping HIV at bay, and PrEP has the potential to effectively halt transmission of the virus, a cure has remained elusive. That's because the HIV virus itself is elusive, both co-opting the immune system and hiding from it.