NCI and FNL Researchers Turn Lessons Learned into Stepping Stones

Imagine you’re building a dresser. You find all the wood and hardware you need and have the instructions, the right tools, and a team of professionals to help. As you and your team put it together, you realize that while the frame is solid, the drawers don’t open and close correctly. You might be tempted to feel discouraged by the results. But a group of scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL), and other collaborating institutions share a different perspective in their recent work published in PNAS. They weren’t trying to assemble furniture but rather generate a new, better mouse model of the most common kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).
Karolina Wilk, Editor, Staff Writer
 04.29.2025
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Community | IT Strategic Planning Workshops Develop Long-Term Goals

As part of NCI’s Research IT Strategic Planning efforts, a workshop was held on the NIH main campus in June. The main purpose of the workshop was to discuss ways to better integrate IT and informatics throughout NCI, and develop specific, high-level goals and related objectives that will drive the direction of IT and informatics support over the next five years.
By Greg Warth, Guest Writer 08.11.2015
Community August 2015

Students | Student Intern Freed Competes at Intel ISEF, Two Others Awarded at Local Science Fair

Class of 2014–2015 Werner H. Kirsten (WHK) student intern Rebecca “Natasha” Freed earned a fourth-place award in biochemistry at the 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the largest high school science research competition in the world, according to the Society for Science & the Public’s website. Freed described the event as “transformative experience,” where she was able to present her research to “experts, including Nobel laureates, as well as members of the general community and, of course, to [other students].”
By Ashley DeVine, Staff Writer; photo by Richard Frederickson, Staff Photographer 08.03.2015
Students Awards August 2015

Science & Technology | Novel Method Developed to Further the Understanding of DNA Palindromes

When Alison Rattray and colleagues in the Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory (GRCBL) examined a mutant yeast cell they had isolated in a screen, they noticed something strange. The DNA exhibited a “very specific, but weird, rearrangement,” she explained.
By Nancy Parrish, Staff Writer; photo by Richard Frederickson, Staff Photographer 07.29.2015
Science & Technology Publications Platinum Highlight July 2015

Health & Safety | EHS Open House: Learning Lab and Life Safety

Attendees of the Environment, Health, and Safety Program’s (EHS’) Open House had a chance to learn self-defense techniques, as well as visit with vendors demonstrating the latest trends in laboratory safety. “Working with sharps in labs is inherently dangerous, so EHS proactively focused on featuring equipment that would promote safer techniques,” said Siobhan Tierney, program manager, EHS.
By Brian O’Shea, Staff Writer; photos by Joe Meyer, Staff Photographer 07.15.2015
Health & Safety July 2015

Publications | Platinum Publications, May 1 – June 25, 2015

Platinum Publications are selected from articles by NCI at Frederick scientists published in 42 prestigious science journals. This list represents articles published during the time period shown above, as generated from PubMed. Articles designated as Platinum Highlights are noteworthy articles selected by Dr. Craig Reynolds, associate director, National Cancer Institute, from among the most recently published Platinum Publications.
Nancy Parrish and Ashley DeVine 07.10.2015
Publications Platinum Publications July 2015