CSHL Assistant Professor Semir Beyaz and colleagues have shown that transcription factor PPARD can promote the fitness of both cancer and immune cells. Their research could help make CAR T-cell therapy effective against colorectal cancer and lead to new treatment strategies for endometriosis, among other conditions.

Physicist David Nolte is developing a laser-based"bio-dynamic" imaging system that could improve the care of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Nolte's system can rapidly evaluate the outcome of different drugs on patient biopsies obtained during diagnosis to ensure patients get the chemotherapy treatment that would be most effective on their specific tumor.

New research by University of Utah biologists uncovers how aspen trees  'remember' past drought in their leaves. Concentrations of chemical compounds that protect aspens from insects and pathogens rise and fall in the years after exposure to drought.