Immunotherapy: The Fourth Pillar of Cancer Care
While it doesn't work for every cancer or patient, immunotherapy is a major advance in cancer treatment, using the patient's own immune system to fight abnormal cells without the s...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Dec 27, 2021
How to Think Like a Scientist: Collaborate Strategically to Am...
We're all familiar with the lone genius myth—a wild-haired scientist mixing burbling chemicals in a basement laboratory—but the reality is that the best scientists team up with oth...
Discoveries / Nov 15, 2021
How to Think Like a Scientist: Communicate with Clarity and Nu...
The most earth-shattering research findings won’t make a dent if scientists can’t share their results in ways that tells the story of their work to the rest of us.
Discoveries / Nov 15, 2021
How to Think Like a Scientist: Embrace the Rigor of Scientific...
The unique and challenging process of scientific publication can help root out the most egregious mistakes in research before they reach a wide audience. The process isn’t perfect,...
Discoveries / Nov 15, 2021
How to Think Like a Scientist: Take the Long View: Great Scien...
Viewed through the lens of history, science moves at a relative gallop. Those timelines can feel like an eternity if you’re the one waiting for a treatment, but the reality is that...
Discoveries / Nov 15, 2021
How to Think Like a Scientist: A Crash Course
How does a scientist work? We’ve condensed some of the most important insights about scientific thinking into a six-lesson minicourse you can take right now.
Discoveries / Nov 15, 2021
How to Think Like a Scientist: Understand Common Biases and Wo...
Bias can be as simple as hoping for a certain outcome in an experiment—but its tentacles can be far-reaching and harmful. Good science requires investigators to systematically iden...
Discoveries / Nov 15, 2021
How to Think Like a Scientist: Refine Your Questions
We asked a few scientists to share the rules they follow when generating research questions. Here's what they told us.
Discoveries / Nov 11, 2021
COVID-19 Treatments: New and Developing Therapies
We're not getting rid of COVID-19—and so continues the furious hunt for new ways to save lives and stop transmission. The development of new drugs, new vaccines, and less invasive ...
Cedars-Sinai Blog / Nov 10, 2021
Three Big Questions About Long COVID
Investigators at Cedars-Sinai are studying critical, pressing questions about long COVID to uncover ways to intervene or treat symptoms.
Discoveries / Nov 10, 2021
Discoveries Could Improve Therapies for Life-Threatening Acute...
Patients with severe COVID-19 who develop respiratory failure may have malfunctions in their immune systems but new research could improve therapies.
Discoveries / Nov 01, 2021
Navigating the Alzheimer’s Maze to Early Diagnosis
Cedars-Sinai neuroscientists develop innovative testing maze for mice with Alzheimer’s that could lead to better techniques for early diagnosis.
Discoveries / Oct 29, 2021
Landmark IBD Study Reveals the Need to Take Ancestry into Acco...
Genetic risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) differ dramatically between African Americans and people of European ancestry, according to a pioneering study co-led by C...
Discoveries / Oct 28, 2021
Potential Therapy for Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
Cedars-Sinai investigators discover potential therapy for alcohol-associated liver disease.
Discoveries / Oct 27, 2021
Can Vitamin D and Fish Oil Lower Atrial Fibrillation Risk?
Research from Smidt Heart Institute suggests vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil do not prevent the development of atrial fibrillation.
Discoveries / Oct 26, 2021
