All Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center articles
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NewsNew evidence for a connection between antibiotic use and autoimmune diseases
A new connection has been revealed between depletion of gut bacteria caused by antibiotics and development of autoimmune diseases. Clearance of dead cells involves not only local signals from within a tissue but also distant signals from other parts of the body.
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NewsResearchers discover source of deadly fungal infections in bone marrow transplant patients
Scientists have found that heteroresistance is the reason a small number of transplant patients developed bloodstream infections, despite receiving prophylaxis with the antifungal drug micafungin.
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NewsSARS-CoV-2 can infect dopamine neurons, causing senescence
A new study has reported that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, can infect dopamine neurons in the brain and trigger senescence - when a cell loses the ability to grow and divide.
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News Crowd-sourced potent SARS-CoV-2 antiviral lead compound announced by COVID Moonshot Consortium
More than 200 scientists and students, triggered by a Twitter appeal, have identified and developed novel compounds with excellent antiviral activity against a key enzyme of the SARS-COV-2 virus, the main protease (Mpro).
