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Research from Sohail Tavazoie providing the first evidence that our own genetics can promote metastasis is competing in #STATMadness—a tournament to find the best innovations in science and medicine.

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In 1926, exactly 95 years ago today, Rockefeller's Clara J. Lynch demonstrated that cancer is heritable. Although the first cancer-causing gene would not be discovered until almost half a century later, Lynch noticed that certain laboratory mice developed cancer spontaneously. She performed a series of experiments, cross-breeding cancer prone mice and tracing how subsequent lineages appeared to inherit lung and breast cancer from their predecessors. Her conclusions pioneered the young field of cancer genetics, laying the groundwork for the now universal study of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Through her mouse experiments Lynch also eventually bred a unique strain of Swiss albino mice, which she shared with the broader scientific community. The descendants of Lynch's mice would become mainstays of biology research around the world.
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“It’s not particularly happy news,” said Michel Nussenzweig, an immunologist at Rockefeller University who was not involved in the new research. “But just knowing about it is good because then we can perhaps do something about it.” ... See MoreSee Less

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Unlike their female counterparts, male mosquitoes have no desire to bite us. A study from Leslie Vosshall's lab shows that the hardware for host-seeking is hidden in the male mosquito brain, locked behind a simple genetic switch. #Rockefellerscience ... See MoreSee Less