What is cancer? What causes it? And how can we stop it?
Group leader Gerard Evan will present a free public talk about his lab’s latest research trying to understand the biology of cancer.

📅 Wednesday 12 June, 10:00-11:00am
🎟️ Book your free ticket:
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Congratulations to all the newly elected Fellows of Academy of Medical Sciences. Great to see so many researchers that Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK have long associations with – Sergio Quezada, Adam Mead, Axel Behrens (@behrens_lab), Niall Martin (@artiospharma), Eugenia Piddini, Dean Fennell FRCP, Ivan Ahel Lab and Mark

Absolutely honoured to be elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences together with amazing ⁦UCL⁩ colleagues!! Thanks to ⁦⁦UCLcancer⁩ ⁦Cancer Research UK⁩ and my amazing team ⁦Quezada Lab⁩ ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

I am so very proud of ⁦Charlie Bell⁩ and this manuscript from ⁦The Dawson Lab⁩ ⁦Peter Mac Research⁩ - A labour of love driven by curiosity, resilience and incredible teamwork over many years. We hope it contributes substantially to our field nature.com/articles/s4158…

A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular

Perhaps the greatest celebrity story ever here, about ROGER MOORE. Give yourself a treat if you've not read it.

Q-For the global burden of disease, what is the leading contributor?
—Systolic blood pressure
—Smoking
—High fasting blood glucose
—Low birthweight
—Air pollution
A-AIr pollution
thelancet.com/journals/lance… The Lancet

Extraordinary finding from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 - The Lancet “Among the specific risk factors analysed for this study, particulate matter air pollution was the leading contributor to the global disease burden in 2021” thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Among specific risk factors analysed particulate matter air pollution was leading contributor to global disease burden in 2021, contributing 8·0% total DALYs, followed by high systolic BP, smoking, low birthweight & short gestation & high fasting glucose thelancet.com/journals/lance…

new review article out in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

📣 Registration has opened for #MAP2024 ! Join us in London for 3 days of insightful discussion on #PrecisionMedicine . We'll explore topics like AI, tumour microenvironment, clonal evolution & novel therapeutics. Register now 👉 bit.ly/3K5MyXG

ESMO - Eur. Oncology | Unicancer

📢Calling all #PrecisionMedicine researchers. The #MAP2024 conference is back, taking place in London this year. Find out more about the agenda and when abstract submissions open 👉bit.ly/3K5MyXG

Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK

Anyone who wants to read the actual paper, download an open access author manuscript at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

This is a blatant misrepresentation of our work science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Our study does not in any way suggest that the application of SPF50 sunscreen “blocks our natural defences” or is detrimental to health.

MIP-C: An entirely new COVID-related syndrome!

➡️ A distinct pattern of deadly MDA5-autoimmunity cases surged contemporaneously with circulation of the SARS-COV-2 virus during COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. 1/

After more than a decade focused on genome editing of DNA, it could turn out that editing the #epigenome , which regulates gene expression, is a better, or, at the very least, a highly complementary strategy
nature.com/articles/s4158… Nature Genetics Cristina Policarpi Jamie Hackett EMBL

Nearly five years and many a sleepless night later, it’s a pleasure to share my postdoctoral work exploring brain-skin circadian communication! So what did we do, what did we discover and what conclusions can we draw? 🧵1/17
cell.com/cell-stem-cell…
Aznar-Benitah Lab Cell Stem Cell

Tartan themed night ⁦ESTRO⁩ #ESTRO24 #presidentialdinner
⁦Fiona McDonald⁩ ⁦Gerry Hanna⁩ ⁦Marianne Aznar⁩ ⁦Anna Kirby⁩ @

FrezzaLab Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli, PhD Direna Alonso-Curbelo Nuria Lopez-Bigas Charles Swanton Love Mina Bissel’s take on this : ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Our work shows the number of mutation-bearing lesions in the human pancreas is ~1000. The lifetime probability to develop pancreatic cancer: 1/60.

So, the probability for a single lesion to become cancer is minuscule: about 1/600,000.
(all approximate)

nature.com/articles/s4158…