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From left: Dr. Ding Cheng Gao, Kari Fischer, Dr. Vivek Mittal Photo credit: Carlos Rene Perez

Study of Breast Cancer Metastasis Upends Conventional Wisdom, Suggesting New Treatment Strategy

Breast cancer cells do not undergo a commonly accepted transformation in order to spread to distant organs such as the lungs, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have found in a new study. This discovery may settle a longstanding debate about how cancers spread, the investigators say, and may profoundly change the way many forms of the disease are treated.

For more than a decade, many researchers have believed that a biological process that transforms the shape...

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Andrew Dannenburg, M.D.

Skinny Fat

As the nation’s waistlines expand, so too is the evidence linking obesity with increased risk of several cancers, and worse prognosis. But even those who maintain a “healthy” weight may be harboring hidden metabolic problems that make them more likely to develop cancer.

Early results of studies led by Andrew Dannenberg, M.D., found that approximately one-third of normal-sized women had...

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A guide for the health care system

Leslie Michelson, author of 'The Patient's Playbook,' and Gail Roboz, M.D., director of Weill Cornell Medicine's Leukemia Program, appeared on...

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Dr. BJ Casey

Landmark Study Investigates Substance Use and Adolescent Brain Development

Weill Cornell Medicine has received more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of substances of abuse on the developing brain. The study will follow approximately 10,000 children beginning at ages 9 to10, before they initiate drug use, through the period of highest risk for substance use and other...

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New Weill Cornell Medicine Name Announced

NEW YORK (October 6, 2015) — After two decades of dynamic growth that has transformed Weill Cornell Medical College into a global healthcare leader, the institution announced today a new name — Weill Cornell Medicine — which more comprehensively captures the full scope of its mission.

The new brand succinctly unites Weill Cornell Medicine's three essential principles — to care, discover and teach — and underscores how patient wellbeing motivates the entirety of its ambitions. A world-...

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Dr. Gregory Petsko Photo Credit: Carlos Rene Perez
Dr. Gregory Petsko Photo Credit: Carlos Rene Perez

The Transporter

Could ‘retromer' be the key to Alzheimer's treatment?

A key to cellular function — and to life itself — is the movement of proteins and lipids within a cell. As these substances follow their paths, a part of the cell called the endosome acts as the traffic hub, sorting them to be recycled, diverted, secreted or degraded. When the endosome sends them to be recycled back to the cell surface, a complex of proteins plays a role like that of a school crossing guard...

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