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In the Lab
An illustration of sugar being sprinkled on a cancer cell.
Just Add Sugar: How a Protein’s Small Change Leads to Big Trouble for Cells

A study from investigators in the Sloan Kettering Institute uncovers the details of how a key protein called GRP94 becomes disrupted, leading to cancer and other diseases.
In the Clinic
Conceptual orange-and-green-colored X-ray showing cancer of the bladder.
Prestigious Grant Bolsters Bladder Cancer Research at MSK

A prominent research grant will enable MSK doctors and scientists to advance the treatment of bladder cancer.
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MSK dance and movement therapist Jenn Whitley with a pediatric patient
How Art Therapy, Music Therapy, and Dance Therapy Help People with Cancer

Meet three creative arts therapists at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
In the Lab
Geneticist Michael Berger
How Do Inherited Gene Mutations Cause Cancer? A New Database Will Help Researchers Find Out

In a new paper, a collaborative team of MSK experts reports how a novel tool will help researchers learn more about the role of inherited hereditary mutations.
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Montage of beer, reproducing cells, and building blocks
License to Build: New Theory of Cancer Puts Metabolism at Center

MSK researchers are rethinking the relationship between metabolism and cancer, and finding insights in some unexpected places. Your beer glass, for example.
Lab member using a next-generation sequencing machine
To Study Treatment Resistance in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer, MSK Researchers Develop New Approach

An MSK research team aims to find new ways to stop the most common and deadly form of ovarian cancer — high-grade serous ovarian cancer — from recurring with the help of a method they developed for tracking the evolution of treatment resistant cells in ovarian cancer using blood tests.
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Two researchers talking in the laboratory
Tooling Up: New Technologies Drive Advances in Cancer Research and Treatment at MSK

MSK scientists and doctors have the most innovative tools at their disposal to make discoveries and develop better treatments.
Jan and Gloria Gura
Reducing Cancer Side Effects Through Online Classes in Yoga, Meditation, and More 

An MSK clinical trial found that participating in integrative therapy classes online could benefit cancer patients in active treatment, not only by reducing fatigue, anxiety, and depression but also lowering hospitalization rates.
A researcher working in an MSK lab
MSK Research Highlights, July 15, 2025

New MSK research investigates whether introducing new mutations could make immunotherapy more effective against some cancers; shows that people in their 90s who underwent lung cancer surgery had positive outcomes; shares lessons on the responsible governance of artificial intelligence in oncology; studies AI-assisted biomarker assessment in lung cancer; and demonstrates a cancer-trained large language model has strong predictive value.
In the Lab
Sloan Kettering Institute molecular biologist Christine Mayr
Scientists Find Cancer Drivers Hiding in a New Place

New findings from researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute suggest that cancer causes may be lurking in the molecule that bridges DNA and protein.