One of the annual rites of spring at the National Cancer Institute at Frederick returned in April, when hundreds of members of the Ft. Detrick and Frederick National Laboratory community participated in the virtual Spring Research Festival. The event was co-sponsored by the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command and the Military & Health Research Foundation.

Look at your fingernails. What comes to mind? Now look at the veins in your arms. What about them? Odds are the words “critical” and “historic” aren’t your first thoughts, but they’d be an apt description. At NCI at Frederick and Frederick National Laboratory, nail clippings and blood specimens are two ways to make a difference in scientific research.

Mark Twain once said that the secret to getting ahead is getting started. A group of Frederick High School students clearly took that advice to heart when they jumped at the chance to learn more about careers in science, including the Werner H. Kirsten Student Internship Program at NCI at Frederick and Frederick National Laboratory.

The emergence of a virus known as monkeypox has raised many questions, most notably: Is this the new pandemic?

NCI at Frederick researchers produced 175 publications that were added to the NCI at Frederick Scientific Publications Database between January and March 2022. The top five words found in the titles of these publications were “cell,” “disease,” “cancer,” “RNA,” and “patients.”