OHS Provides Easy Heart Health Tips at “DASH and Dine” Event

Photo of OHS nurse and visitors at the event

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

The lunchtime dash to a nearby eatery is a daily ritual at NCI at Frederick, but Occupational Health Services (OHS) recently showed employees a different, healthy kind of DASH—Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. Employees who visited the educational lunch-hour event, called “DASH and Dine,” had the chance to speak with OHS staff about the benefits of the DASH Eating Plan, a diet developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

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(Updated) Targeted T-Cell Therapy Shows Promise Against Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Immunofluorescence image of TEM8 in TNBC cells

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

(Updated May 8) A study led by the Baylor College of Medicine and supported by NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) has demonstrated that chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy can be used to treat solid triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) tumors. The investigation is the first work using CAR T-cell therapy against TEM8, a cell surface protein that is frequently overexpressed both in TNBC cells and cells lining the blood vessels that sustain TNBC tumors.

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Operations and Maintenance February Newsletter

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Resource management in the form of “outsourcing” continues to be a valuable tool for the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) department. The O&M department uses this resource as an integral part of its approach to customer service.

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Protective Services Chili Cookoff Full of Good Food, Good Fun, and “Tough Choices”

Photo of Miller with Stull, Hrasar, and Farling

Monday, February 5, 2018

This year’s Protective Services Chili Cookoff was marked by blazing-hot chili and fiery competition as 15 entrants contended for the attention and adoration of approximately 150 hungry attendees. The competition is a fixture at NCI at Frederick and regularly features an array of culinary concoctions, from which the visitors rank their choices for first, second, and third place.

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NCI Scientists Get Deep Look at CRISPR Complex Through Deep Freeze

Artist's depiction of viral DNA bound to Csy

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

To get a closer look at one CRISPR complex, researchers from NCI’s Center for Cancer Research and their collaborators recently put it “on ice” with cryo-electron microscopy, creating highly detailed images that show its biological structures in multiple states at a molecular level.

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