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Serena Nik-Zainal @serenanikzainal.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Signposting the upcoming Early Detection of Cancer Conference, October 21-23, 2025, Portland, Oregon. www.earlydetectionresearch.com Make sure you get your tickets now! ☺️
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The Early Detection of Cancer Conference brings together experts in early detection from multiple disciplines to share ground breaking research and progress in the field.
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Serena Nik-Zainal @serenanikzainal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
PAPER OUT!! 🥳🎉💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻 A redefined InDel taxonomy provides insights into mutational signatures @NatureGenet Brainchild of the amazing #GeneKoh (Sir Jeffrey Cheah ECR) Tweetorial below!! 👇 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A redefined InDel taxonomy provides insights into mutational signatures - Nature Genetics
This paper describes a framework for classifying small insertions and deletions from genomic data and applies it to a large dataset comprising seven tumor types. The analysis highlights new insertion ...
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William Fostier @wfostier.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Credit to supervisors @derm-scientist.bsky.social and @serenanikzainal.bsky.social and co-authors Dr. Koh, Ms. Holt, Dr. Husain, Dr. Namini, Dr. Mathew, Dr. Memari, and Dr. Davies for their hard work on this project 👏🏼 academic.oup.com/ced/advance-...
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Metastatic malignant cylindroma arising on a background of digenic inheritance of BRCA2 and CYLD pathogenic variants targeted with PARP inhibition
Management of malignant cylindroma, particularly in the case of metastasis, poses a difficult challenge for clinicians and is limited by a lack of randomiz
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EACR - European Association for Cancer Research @helloeacr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
There's a month left for you to submit an abstract or apply for a Travel Grant to attend the next edition of Defence is the Best Attack, taking place in Barcelona in May! ☀️ Join us for an overview of the most recent advances in the field of immunotherapy: eacr.org/conference/d...
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Serena Nik-Zainal @serenanikzainal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Half-term hols in UK. Our house is FULL of 17 year old girls dancing and singing #Galentines ahead of Valentines…💖
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keithcaldecott.bsky.social @keithcaldecott.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Dear all, Postdoc positions are available to work on (1) the role of DNA strand break repair proteins during DNA replication and (2) the molecular/structural biology of XRCC1 protein complexes, as part of our work on genetic diseases & cancer. Contact me if interested: k.w.caldecott@sussex.ac.uk
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Serena Nik-Zainal @serenanikzainal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I’m all batty! 🦇 That’s 👇 quite an interesting read! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature
A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...
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