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Vanesa Cepas López

@cepaslopez.bsky.social
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MSCA Postdoctoral fellow at University of Turin/Candiolo Cancer Institute. Interested in redox biology, cell plasticity and cancer. 🐣 Asturies 🏠 Torino

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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a great opportunity for PhD students. You can share your research with the redox community and best presentations will be awarded a free registration for SFRR-E 2027 in Porto 🇵🇹. Participate or encourage your PhD students to do so!
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Patricia Altea-Manzano @alteamanzanolab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New review from our lab is out! Metastatic success depends on more than tumor genetics. We discuss how the interplay between cancer cell metabolism and organ-specific metabolic niches shapes where metastases grow. 👉"Metabolic matching shapes organ-specific metastasis" doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...
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Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. @weyemilab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thrilled to share our latest work from the lab, published today in Science Advances @science.org Our findings reveal a previously unrecognized PRDX1-dependent mechanism that safeguards RNA polymerase I-dependent transcription, and ribosomal RNA biogenesis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Peroxiredoxin 1 safeguards the nucleolar genome from oxidative damage
Peroxiredoxin 1 (PRDX1) is a highly conserved, thiol-dependent peroxidase that rapidly scavenges reactive oxygen species to modulate redox signaling. PRDX1-null mice exhibited genomic instability, sho...
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SFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
SFRR-E ECR Webinar Series: Emerging Leaders in Redox Biology 🗓 September 1, 2026 | 15:00 CET "Redox in hypoxia" by Taylor Covington & Christopher Switzer Join us online 👉 tinyurl.com/SFRREWebinar Follow us: linktr.ee/SFRRE #RedoxBiology #ECR
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SFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📣 NEW SEASON, NEW WEBINARS! 🎉 The 5th SFRR-E ECR webinar series is here! 🔬🌍 Check the lineup, save the dates & join us for cutting-edge redox research from ECRs worldwide! 👉 Webinars: tinyurl.com/SFRREWebinar 🔗 Follow us: linktr.ee/SFRRE #SFRRE #ECR #Redox
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Lucas Sullivan @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Check out our recent Spotlight article in @cp-trendsendomet.bsky.social discussing intriguing new findings in mitochondrial lactate metabolism, written by graduate student Serwah Danquah! Paywall bypass link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nNcv3jDgW...
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Plant Energy Biology Lab @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
📣APPLY NOW Complexome Profiling in Plants: Exploring Organellar Protein Networks 🌱🧪 Amazing opportunity to learn on-site from the leading experts!! FREE Eduard Strasburger Workshop exclusively for ECRs @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/...
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DBG's Eduard Strasburger-Workshop
Eduard Strasburger-Workshop: From young plant scientits for young plant scientists exclusively - supported by the DBG
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Brandán Pedre @brandanium.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Want to monitor cysteine dynamics in real time and with subcellular resolution? Cystector plasmids are now on Addgene! E. coli (His-tagged): addgene.org/250652/ Mammalian cells: addgene.org/250653/ Yeast: addgene.org/250654/ Yeast mitochondrial: addgene.org/250655/ Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Addgene: pRSETb 6xHis-Cystector (Cysteine biosensor)
Plasmid pRSETb 6xHis-Cystector (Cysteine biosensor) from Dr. Peter Dedecker's lab contains the insert Cystector (Cysteine biosensor) and is published in bioRxiv 2026.01.27.698081 This plasmid is avai...
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sfrraustralasia.bsky.social @sfrraustralasia.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Not long for the SFRRA meeting! www.queenstownresearchweek.org/redox-biology/ Registration & Abstract Sub Open: Friday 1 May 2026 Abstract Sub Deadline: Wednesday 1 July 2026 Early Bird Registration Deadline: Friday 17 July 2026 – 4:00pm Registrations Close: Thursday 20 August 2026 – 4:00pm
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Claudia Lennicke @claudialennicke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Excited to co-chair the 2026 Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Thiol-Based Redox Regulation & Signaling with Taylor Covington, a meeting for early career researchers in redox research 📍 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain ☀️ 📅 July 11–12, 2026 #Redox #Thiols #EarlyCareerResearchers More details ↓
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
1/3 Thrilled to see our paper led by Kirandeep Deol is out in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology! CRISPR screens to uncover a role for vitamin B2 metabolism in stabilizing FSP1 via FAD, revealing a new way vitamins regulate ferroptosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Vitamin B2 metabolism promotes FSP1 stability to prevent ferroptosis - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Here, Deol et al. use genetic screens in gene-edited reporter cell lines to identify regulators of ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) expression and stability. They show that vitamin B2 metabolis...
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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Happy to share the final version of the study where we describe a central role for vitaminB2 in regulating membrane redox state - some new cool experiments were added since the preprint was posted - pls check this out thttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-025-01856-x
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Riboflavin metabolism shapes FSP1-driven ferroptosis resistance - Nature Cell Biology
After performing a focused CRISPR–Cas9 screen, Skafar et al. identify riboflavin (vitamin B2) as a regulator of FSP1 stability that modulates phospholipid peroxidation and ferroptosis sensitivity in c...
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messenslab.bsky.social @messenslab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Cells may work with “Lego®️ bricks” 🧱 at the molecular level. Our new study shows that peroxiredoxins can mix different subunits to form hybrid complexes arranged in donut-like rings 🍩, creating molecular diversity that helps cells fine-tune stress and redox signaling responses. Out in Nat Chem Biol.
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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
As scientists, it is our duty to inform, educate and properly communicate with the public. If you want to learn how to do it from a reference in the field @andresrieznik.bsky.social , do not miss the next SFRR-E Science Outreach webinar. 📢
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Brandán Pedre @brandanium.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🧪🧬 New preprint! What if the same biosensor could reveal how cysteine is regulated across life domains? We introduce Cystector, a genetically encoded fluorescent biosensor for real-time cysteine monitoring in living cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵A thread ⬇️
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Muir Lab @muirlab.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Very helpful methods and protocol! www.sciexplor.com/articles/fos... Great work @ginadenicola.bsky.social and team!
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Best practices for cysteine analysis
Accurate measurement of cysteine and related thiol-containing metabolites is essential for understanding cellular redox regulation. However, the intrinsic reactivity and instability of cysteine presen...
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Plant Energy Biology Lab @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Concentration or Potential - that’s the question 🌱🪫🔋 Latest work by Andreas Meyer and team on the role of glutathione in root development @jxbotany.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
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Vousden Lab @labvousden.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our group leader, Prof. Vousden, has co-authored a new textbook on cancer metabolism with Prof. Navdeep Chandel and Prof. Ralph DeBerardinis. Check it out! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39500632/
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Cancer Metabolism: Historical Landmarks, New Concepts, and Opportunities - PubMed
Cancer cells undergo changes in metabolism that distinguish them from non-malignant tissue. These may provide a growth advantage by promoting oncogenic signaling and redirecting intermediates to anabolic pathways that provide building blocks for new cellular components. Cancer metabolism is far from …
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
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Development's Pathway to Independence Programme
Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...
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SFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🌱 Dear Colleagues & Friends, We are thrilled to announce the 17th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants (POG 2026)!🌱✨ 📍 Granada, Spain | 🗓 Sept 9–11, 2026 👉 f.mtr.cool/uoonwvhhcz Join us & share widely! 🚀 #POG2026 #PlantBiology #RedoxBiology
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POG 2026 | Granada
17th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants
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Alicia Kowaltowski @aliciakowaltowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The Department of Biochemistry at the University of São Paulo is hiring two new assistant professors, an incredible opportunity for young talented scientists! @uspoficial.bsky.social www.iq.usp.br/portaliqusp/...
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SFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
👥 Meet the speakers! 🔬 SFRR-E ECR Webinar: Redox Mechanisms in Aging 🗓 Dec 2 | 🕒 15:00 CET 📲 Zoom: 864 6973 1540 | 🔑 433382 👉 f.mtr.cool/epvjgrhbxp Don’t miss it! 🚀 #SFRRE #RedoxBiology #AgingResearch
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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Another @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social webinar to keep up to date with the latest work in redox biology! This month: redox mechanisms in aging. See you there!
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sfrraustralasia.bsky.social @sfrraustralasia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Save the Date! SFRRA & Human Peroxidase Joint Meeting, 2-4 Sept 2026 in Christchurch, NZ.
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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Next Tuesday and Wednesday PhD students will share their exciting redox biology projects with the community 🎤 How can you join the webinar? us06web.zoom.us/j/8646973154... Passcode: 433382
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SFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Get ready for the 3rd PhD Symposium 🎤🧪 ‘Redox Relay Race’ is almost here! 🖥️ Online | Nov 18 & 19, 15:00 CET Flash talks (5+2 min), prizes 🎉 & global ECRs sharing fresh ideas in redox biology 🌍✨ #SFRRE #RedoxBiology #ECRwebinar #ScienceCommunity
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🌍🌎🌏Open to students worldwide! I m super excited for this project 🎉
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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨We have just launched a search to fill a new Jr group leader position!🚨 Great conditions to kickstart your own independent carreer - happy to answer any questions you might have. please spread the word and repost! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/rvz/jobs-...
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Job Offers - Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging
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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🚨ECRs apply to the PhD Symposium! Best presentations will be awarded a free registration for SFRR-E conference 2026 in Mainz! You have all the info in the SFRR-E intranet!
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SFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
New biosensor for REDOX lovers! Scientists at VIB, Daria Ezeriņa and Joris Messens, with global partners, developed HyPerFLEX🌈! @messenslab.bsky.social
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Nature Reviews Cancer @natrevcancer.nature.com · 22/10/2025
REVIEW🚨 The authors discuss the regulation and interplay of the metabolic #CellDeath pathways #ferroptosis, #disulfidptosis and #cuproptosis and explore how these mechanisms can be harnessed for cancer therapies. @mdanderson.bsky.social 📖 ⬇️ bit.ly/3L3vN...
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Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨New paper published today on cancer bugs and drugs!🚨 “Chemotherapy modulation by a cancer-associated microbiota metabolite” Congrats to the Cabreiro lab on this exciting study! #Cancer #Microbiome #Metabolism #Chemotherapy #MRC_LMS #ImperialCollege #CECAD_Cologne www.cell.com/cell-systems...
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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social webinar series is back! You can't miss tomorrow's talks by @avdar66.bsky.social and Thibaut Vignane for some exciting insights about Redox Regulation in Cellular Aggregates 🚀
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Carlos Henriquez-Olguin @musclebiology.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚀New preprint w/ @roberto_amv: We used chemogenetics to precisely control mitochondrial H2O2 in skeletal muscle in vivo. This exposes a dose-dependent sequence: translation suppression → proteolysis → denervation-like → degeneration @tejensen23 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 27/08/2025
🍹Interested in #DevBio and #metabolism ? This Review discusses the relationship between metabolism and embryogenesis! 👉https://rdcu.be/eCHvJ bit.ly/4oVnB4t
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Metabolic regulation of key developmental events during mammalian embryogenesis - Nature Cell Biology
This Review discusses the intricate relationship between metabolism and embryogenesis, highlighting the orchestration of key developmental processes by metabolites and signalling molecules that provid...
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Julia Vorhauser @juliavorhauser.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I am very happy to share that my PhD work in the Mansfeld lab (www.mansfeldlab.com) was published yesterday! 🎉 In this study, we characterized a novel redox switch on p21 that regulates proliferation: www.cell.com/molecular-ce... Huge thanks to everyone involved for making this possible 🙏@icr.ac.uk
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A redox switch in p21-CDK feedback during G2 phase controls the proliferation-cell cycle exit decision
ROS oxidize cell cycle proteins and regulate cell proliferation. Vorhauser et al. show that oxidation of the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor p21 at cysteine 41 (C41) during the G2 phase contro...
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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
If you’re looking for a wonderful postdoc experience plus exciting project, this is the place!
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Alicia Kowaltowski @aliciakowaltowski.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Save the dates!
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Ché Pillay @chepillay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Happy to share our review paper, "Emerging Trends for the Regulation of Thiol-Based RedoxTranscription Factor Pathways" doi.org/10.1021/acs.... It was fun learning about the really cool science being undertaken by some excellent labs. Thanks, ACS Biochemistry, for the invite.
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Emerging Trends for the Regulation of Thiol-Based Redox Transcription Factor Pathways
Thiol-based redox transcription factor pathways play central roles in the cellular response to peroxide stress. We review the bacterial OxyR, yeast AP-1 and mammalian NRF2/Keap1 systems and the princi...
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SFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Don't miss it ! 🧪 The 2nd FEBS Redox Medicine Workshop will explore how the exposome—diet, chemicals, microbes & more—modulates redox regulation in health & disease. From tools to therapies, talks span redox in metabolism, epigenetics, transcription, cell death & beyond. #Redox #Exposome #FEBS
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Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🎉Excited to share our latest paper, published in Nature Communications!🎉 "Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila" #redox #metabolism #ageing #Drosophila @natcomms.nature.com @mrc-lms.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila - Nature Communications
Redox signalling is emerging as an important regulator of metabolism and physiology, which is dysregulated in ageing and disease. Here, the authors show that redox regulation of a key redox sensitive ...
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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🎉 Exciting news! I’ve been awarded an ECR seed grant from SFRR-E! It supports early career researchers in launching new projects and generating preliminary data for future grant applications. Grateful for the support and looking forward to getting started! 🔗 www.sfrr-europe.org/index.php/aw...
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ECR FELLOWSHIP AWARDEES
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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Organelle conversations drive ferroptosis - news and views on a recent study by @mariamls.bsky.social and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Organelle conversations drive ferroptosis - Nature Cell Biology
Ferroptosis begins with phospholipid peroxidation, leading to membrane damage rupture and cell death. Although research has surged, the intracellular site for ferroptosis initiation remains uncertain....
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Manuel Collado @manuel-collado.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Want to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships to work with us? Apply: cimus.usc.gal/jobs/marie-s...
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships: Call for Expressions of Interest 2025 | CiMUS
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships: Call for Expressions of Interest 2025
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Pedro Friedmann Angeli @angelifriedmann.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New review together with @k-hadian.bsky.social group- Have fun reading! #ferroptosis #nutrition #celldeath www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The metabolic code of ferroptosis: nutritional regulators of cell death
Ferroptosis is a distinctive form of regulated cell death driven by iron-dependent phospholipid peroxidation. Its initiation and suppression are finel…
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Andrea Morandi @andreamorandi.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
.🧬We looked for a CD44:SLC1A2 fusion in breast cancer. The data said no. Instead of shelving it, we published. 📢 Now out in @SpringerNature MCB: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Negative results matter. Transparency matters. Proud of this one 🥳! #OpenScience
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CD44 and SLC1A2 are commonly regulated but do not form a fusion transcript in ER+ breast cancer - Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Endocrine therapy (ET) is essential for managing ER+ HER2− breast cancer; however, resistance remains a significant clinical challenge. This study investigated whether CD44-SLC1A2 gene fusions, report...
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Vanesa Cepas López @cepaslopez.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨🚨The call for the new edition of the Mentoring Program is open. You can apply as a mentor or mentee through the SFRR-E intranet, it only takes 10 minutes!
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Dana Reichmann @danareichmann.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The @EMBO workshop #EMBOthiolSwitches is coming up soon, join us in beautiful Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, 13–18 September 2025! We have a fantastic speaker lineup, with a few spots still open for short talks. Abstract deadline extended to 31 May 2025. meetings.embo.org/event/25-thi...
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Thiol-based redox switches: From chemistry to physiology and pathology
Redox reactions have been essential for the emergence of life on Earth, and diverse strategies have evolved for responding to various cellular redox species. These mechanisms are still of vital impor…
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