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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“We need a clue representing wisdom and healing,” Marc reads. “A unicorn,” Francesca replies—pointing at one high on Barcelona Cathedral. She was right. 🦄 A fitting escape room for the Aging & Cancer Lab: helping the Timekeeper recover her gadget before time escapes us.

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#Book_Recommendation As labs grow, bottlenecks change. We study how aging and chemotherapy disrupt metabolic supply chains in the body. Now we are applying the same systems thinking to the lab itself. This month we recommend Andrew Grove’s High Output Management. www.amazon.com/dp/067976288...

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Why do aged or injured cells lose their ability to stay metabolically lean when nutrients are abundant? We’re happy to welcome Saiprahalad Mani, joining us from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for his MSc practical work. Welcome to the Aging and Cancer Lab, Sai!

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hematopoietic stem cells face a central choice: divide or stay dormant. In our lab seminar series, Patricia Herrero shared how this decision is shaped — and how aging and cancer therapy may reshape it. Thanks to Patricia and the Bigas Lab for an inspiring seminar.

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

An almost empty 1970s-looking bar. An elderly owner solving crosswords. A few rundown tables. Two board games. Not the obvious setting for a lab memory. But playing miners and saboteurs there will quietly become part of our lab’s history.

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Can the aged tissue microenvironment help predict cancer recurrence? Welcome Adelina Gheorghe, a medical oncologist joining our team to test this question in the clinic and help move our findings toward better patient care.

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Your epigenome may record the exposures of your life. At our Aging & Cancer Lab seminar, Silvana Maas (Seoane Lab) showed how lifestyle and environmental exposures leave marks on DNA that can be decoded to reconstruct exposures linked to early-onset colorectal cancer. #Aging&CancerLabseminars

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

When Ning, Francesca & Marc were selected to speak @senescel.org 2025, they gave it their all, refining every argument and minute. Their talks put our metabolic bottleneck model of aging on the field’s radar. 👏 What do you think drives tissue aging, the cell or its environment? 🤔

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Postdoc | VHIO, Barcelona Immunotherapies succeed in only ~20% of cases. Help us break resistance by engineering the right environment. Join the Aging & Cancer Lab 🌍 👉 Apply: vhiovidaprogramme.eu/recruitment/ | mauslab.org

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📖Culture dishes and in vivo studies are not our only experiments. As our lab turns soon 3, we keep on testing how to grow a culture where ideas and people thrive. For anyone curious about the science of teamwork, The Culture Code is a brilliant field guide. 📖 #LabReads

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🌱We are delighted to welcome Gloria Ariño from Universidad Europea de Madrid as our third summer intern!🌟 Gloria will explore how aging creates metabolic bottlenecks in the colon and how these shape tumorigenesis. With Gloria, Laura & Aiste, our summer intern dream team is complete!💪

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🎯 The Aging and Cancer Lab is not afraid of tough battles — in science or laser tag. What connects aging and cancer? Can we stop it? We team up and take aim together at the route causes.. 🔬💥

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🌱Excited to welcome Aistė Avižaitė from Lithuania’s @VU_LT to the lab this summer! She’ll be studying how chemotherapy alters metabolism in healthy tissues and how this may drive accelerated aging in childhood cancer survivors. #Aging #Cancer #SummerIntern

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🌱 Welcome aboard, Laura! Joining us this summer from @URV_universitat, Laura Boró García will be exploring how aging and chemotherapy disrupt metabolism and epigenetics in the bone marrow. We’re thrilled to have her with us! 🧬🧪 #Aging #Cancer #SummerIntern

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

What makes a bag of cells become a complex, intelligent being—and what breaks those rules to cause aging and system breakdown? Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems offers a toolkit to understand biology, society, and the economy in their native language: systems. #LabReads 📚

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Increasing number of young individuals are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. This week, we hosted medical oncologist Iosune Baraibar, who shared what she at @vhio.bsky.social, and @danafarber.bsky.social collaborators are doing to understand and act on this epidemic. Honored to work at VHIO.

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🚀 Recently, we welcomed Agnese Brischetto as our #JournalClub invited speaker! She shared insights into the biology of psoriasis—an autoimmune skin condition affecting ~3% of the population—along with intriguing findings on potential new treatments.

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Imagine a world where you can choose your child’s traits or rewrite your own genes to cure disease or extend life. This month, we recommend The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee — a gripping history of how we came to understand, and are beginning to rewrite, the code of inheritance.

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🚀 Recently, we welcomed Sefora Conti as our #JournalClub invited speaker! She shared how she has used tools from mechanobiology, meta-analysis, and bioinformatics to uncover what drives metastasis in gastrointestinal tumors. 👉https://vhio.net/pf/upper-gastrointestinal-and-endocrine-tumor-group/

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 3 days left! 🚨 2 POSTDOC positions The metabolically aged microenvironment in immune evasion and cancer Aging and Cancer Lab, VHIO, Barcelona Learn more at: mauslab.org/join-us

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🚨 10 days left! 🚨 Postdoc position in Barcelona - The metabolically aged microenvironment in immune evasion and cancer HOW TO APPLY: MSCA-funded position: vhiovidaprogramme.eu Lab-funded position: jobs.vhio.net/en/jobs/5428... Learn more at: mauslab.org

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Last week, the Aging and Cancer Lab embarked on an intergalactic mission to find alien life. Our journey took a turn, when space parasites attacked our ship! Some of us made it back… barely. 🚀🛸🦠 #EscapeRoom #TeamBonding #SciFiSurvivors

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

📚 hashtag#BookOfTheMonth Surviving cancer may seem like a victory, but like war veterans, survivors are haunted by trauma, relapse, and late effects. This month, we recommend The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde—a raw, honest account of breast cancer survival. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Can...

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🚀Last week, we hosted Daniel Fernandez Perez from the Fraticelli lab as our #JournalClub speaker! Stem cells have inherent biases toward certain cell fates. Daniel and his team developed ways to read these biases, which may reveal blood cancer origins. 👉https://fraticellilab.com

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in Barcelona! 🚨 Join us at Maus Lab to explore how the metabolically aged microenvironment shapes anti-tumor immunity and promotes cancer. 🔬 If you're passionate about immunology, metabolism, and aging, apply here: 👉https://mauslab.org/join-us #Postdoc

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚀Today, we welcomed Laura Belver from the Carreras institute as our #JournalClub invited speaker. She showed us how small disruptions in enhancers—tiny genomic switches that control transcription—can drive childhood cancer. 👉https://belverlab.org

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚀 Steve Horvath revolutionized aging research by showing that molecular clocks in our cells track biological age. Last week, we welcomed J.M. Herranz as an invited speaker at our #JournalClub. He shared how he aims to take this approach to the next level using evolving AI. 🤯

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Our vision is a future where organs and tissues aging faster than the rest of the body and at higher risk of cancer can be detected, and where metabolic rejuvenation can restore anti-tumor immunity and prevent cancer before it even starts. #CancerPrevention #tumor-immunology #Aging #Cancer

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

With each decade lived, our chance of being diagnosed with cancer doubles. How does aging cause cancer? Can we make cancer-prone tissues as visible as wrinkles are? Can we treat aging instead of cancer? These are the questions we are trying to answer - Aging and Cancer lab.

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The Maus Lab @mauslab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🚀Postdoc opportunity 🧬Passionate about aging and cancer? Ready to uncover how aging-driven metabolic bottlenecks fuel cancer and immune evasion? - Join us! Learn about us 👉 mauslab.org Apply now 👉 vhiovidaprogramme.eu #Postdoc #Cancer #Aging #metabolism #immunity

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