Pièce de résistance Words

--Pièce de résistance--

Ages and days have passed since I've updated this blog, but I have been writing, and writing more than ever. Unfortunately, my best energy is devoted to work I can't blog: the science of Joan Massaguè, Marcel van den Brink, Michel Sadelain, and beyond. These physician-scientists are making strong strides on all fronts--performing allogeneic bone marrow transplants, identifying the genes that underly metastasis, engineering red blood cells to deliver proteins...

You can read more about their work in journals like Nature and Cell, but not here! And they're doing this fabulous work in MSK's new research building (pictured above). It's an Upper East Side gem--23 floors of the best kept scientific secrets in the world.

In other news, I've been working on some longer pieces. They cover topics ranging from Basques to beauty, and they light me up and extract my deepest parts. Meanwhile, travel writing has captivated me, too; I like to recall Spain and write about its rhythm. (I am no Michener, but I aspire.)

So I'll post these pieces soon, and other ones, too. There could be a pièce de résistance among them! If one strikes you as such, please read it twice:-)

Happy writing!

.MGW.