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Charles Swanton
Francis Crick Institute and UCL Hospitals @CR_UK Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Lung Oncologist Air Pollution and Drug Resistance Fair Weather 🚴
Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK
We're here to support our broad cancer research community of 4,000 scientists and clinicians. For general Cancer Research UK news & fundraising follow @CR_UK
Gautam Dey
Evo cell bio of the nucleus | Group Leader @EMBL | prev UCL Stanford NCBS | Editorial @preLights #MBoC #bioRxiv #JCS #ReviewCommons | @wilbe_science | #ASAPbio
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The Institute of Cancer Research is making the discoveries that defeat cancer. We're a top UK academic research centre, a postgrad college, and a charity.
James Briscoe
Developmental Biologist working @TheCrick Neural tube, morphogens & transcriptional networks. Editor-in-chief @Dev_journal Also @[email protected]
ICYMI – Crick researchers were featured on the front page of the The Guardian this week for their discovery of a major driver of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), along with scientists from UCL and Imperial College London
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Researchers at the Crick, UK Dementia Research Institute and VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research have found that chatter between support cells in the brain is closely linked to Alzheimer’s disease in mice.
The findings open up potential research avenues in the search for new Alzheimer’s treatments.
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It’s been a pleasure having Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie, currently based at Columbia University, spend his sabbatical at the Crick these last few months.
Thanks for the hugely interesting talk yesterday about ‘The continuing need for useless knowledge.’
PhD Student Ben Barber made a great video summarising our recent work on metal-peptidic cages, winning an award at the faculty competition - all hand drawn! Read all about our work at dlvr.it/T7Z0yW Chem The Crick KCL Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
Huge thanks to Gabby Logan for sharing your incredible journey with us yesterday!
An entertaining and enlightening look at how women’s sport has evolved in the last few decades.
Scientists from the Crick, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS) and Imperial College London have identified important differences in the size, shape and position of guts between male and female fruit flies.
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Researchers at the Crick and King's College London have created a drug delivery system from proline, an amino acid found in chicken feathers, that could be used to limit the side effects of chemotherapy and repair important enzymes.
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🎟️ Free tickets are still available for our #MedicineAtTheCrick event next Thursday!
Hosted by @charlesswanton, researchers and clinicians will explore the two-step model of cancer initiation and promotion.
📅 6 June 2024, 14:00-17:45
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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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Huge congratulations to Crick and Imperial College London group leader Xiaodong Zhang, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society today! 🥂 crick.ac.uk/news-and-repor…