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The immune system, unleashed

5/15/2018

Cancer immunotherapy has a long and storied history, one that begins with a young woman suffering from a pain in her hand Read the story »

Base Pairs Episode 15: The immune system unleashed

5/15/2018

Cancer immunotherapy has a long and storied history, one that begins with a young woman suffering from a pain in her hand. Listen to the podcast »

Bringing immune cells back into the cancer fight

5/4/2018

Doug Fearon used a mouse model to discover how pancreatic cancer hides from the immune system. Read the story »

One experiment: When cancer is hiding in plain sight

3/1/2018

Douglas Fearon's team is figuring out how to get immune cells to recognize—and kill—pancreatic cancer cells Read the story »

Turning off the immune system is hard. Turning it on against cancer is easier.

1/10/2018

How Professor Doug Fearon’s experiences with autoimmune disease patients contributed to the discovery of a new potential immunotherapy for cancer. Read the story »

Halfway around the world, a reunion of friends opens door to a cancer discovery

8/31/2017

After interviewing for a position in a pancreatic cancer lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 7,000 miles from his hometown in South Korea, Chang-il. Read the story »

Long-sought mechanism of metastasis is discovered in pancreatic cancer

7/27/2017

An epigenetic factor reprograms gene enhancers, enabling cancer cells to “remember” an earlier developmental state and causing metastasis. Read the story »

Why is pancreatic cancer SO hard to treat? New discovery helps explain

5/16/2017

Discovery of distinct cell types helps explain why pancreatic cancer is so hard to treat. Watch the video »

CSHL to lead international team developing next-generation organoid cancer research

5/11/2017

CSHL awarded a research subcontract by Leidos Biomedical Research to lead Cancer Model Development Center for upper-gastrointestinal cancers. Read the story »

Mutations in “junk” DNA are tied to pancreatic cancer

5/8/2017

Mutations in the often-ignored gene-regulating parts of DNA are revealed to influence specific pathway pathologies in pancreatic cancer. Watch the video »

Newly discovered mutations impair key cell pathways in pancreatic cancer

5/8/2017

Researchers have found important new clues to the development of pancreatic cancer. Read the story »

Discovery of distinct cell subtypes around tumors helps explain why pancreatic cancer is so hard to treat

2/23/2017

Researchers finds that stroma,“wound”-like tissue that surrounds the tumors, helps explain why pancreatic cancer is so resistant to treatment. Read the story »

Researchers identify potentially druggable mutant p53 proteins that promote cancer growth

12/9/2016

Truncated p53 proteins, presumed unimportant, now point to new drug targets for some of "the hardest cancers" Read the story »

Base Pairs Episode 6: When antioxidants are pro-cancer

11/15/2016

Recent research on antioxidant levels in the cells of pancreatic cancer patients is homing in on a new, safer avenue for treatment. Listen to the podcast »

When antioxidants are pro-cancer