Cherie Blenkiron

I’m alive! And British so I love a bit of weather chat.

You got soft

Yep

Is there anyone here at one of the universities in Wellington, NZ, who would want to host me to give a talk around November 10th?

Me neither!!

Oh no!!! I’m WFH tomorrow so not on site! I’ll see if I can make it in.

What is funding? Rarely seen here!

A lot to do/build/hire with very little dollars me thinks

Tumor antigens preferentially derive from unmutated genomic sequences in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer - Nature Cancer Based on a proteogenomic analysis, Perreault and colleagues report that the majority of predicted tumor antigens originate from unmutated genomic sequences in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer.

🔔Take a look at this article now published at Nature Cancer!

'Tumor antigens preferentially derive from unmutated genomic sequences in #melanoma and non-small cell #lungcancer'

✏️By Pierre Thibault, Claude Perreault & colleagues

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

To EV or not to EV that is the question

Do you ever wonder: are we truly studying #EVs, or are contaminants clouding the picture?

Join us at this months @anzsev.bsky.social ECR workshop, where we’ll be discussing this important topic!

🗓️ Wednesday, 28th May
⏰ 3-4pm AEST
💻 Virtual via Zoom

Register at utsmeet.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Creepy how they seem to have accelerated the John Key cloning programme #onceyouseeit

I dehydrated some and brought over to friends in Austria.

Cape Reinga! Lovely up there!

The fantastic line-up of speakers for our virtual (and free!) mini-symposium on The Foundations of EV Therapeutics has been announced!

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to hear from leaders in the EV field 🫧

🗓️ April 9th, 1-4pm AEST
🔗 Register at uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This! No evidence (yet) of efficacy, safety or even looking at what the hell they’re injecting for many of these cosmetic applications of cell debris (definitely not exosomes, unlikely to even be extracellular vesicles).

Saw this little guy on the weekend & couldn’t resist. But endometriosis is much more than just uterus & ovaries. It is where tissue similar to what is normally in the uterus (endometrium) grows outside of the uterus, spreading in the pelvic area & sometimes beyond. #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth

Swab test could help UK women avoid invasive checks for womb cancer New method reported to cut number of false positives by 87% has been registered with regulator for approval A new swab test could help hundreds of thousands of women a year in the UK who may have womb cancer avoid having an often painful invasive…

Swab test could help UK women avoid invasive checks for womb cancer

Trying to get rid of the niggling feeling that purchasing a ‘leadership’ book is the in same vein as a ‘self-help’ book.

Also consolidating the difference between ‘coaching’ and ‘counselling’.

I’m a Kiwi Brit. I’m not a fan of talking. Better get used to it as incoming Head of Department! 😅

What? Eh?

Oh I love that film! Batshit bonkers!

Wow you’re too cool for us kids

I don’t normally listen to him. Awful wiffle waffle.

Wondering the same!

There’s little evidence of a ‘brain microbiome’ | Letter Letters: Prof Mark Pallen, Dr Aimee Parker, Prof Nick Loman and Prof Alan Walker take issue with an article that discussed the existence of a brain microbiome and its impact on diseases

An important read for all microbiome researchers #microbiomania www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

When invited to Ishikawa to present your work on the endometrial cancer cell line of the same name, that MUST be fate right?

Title: Do Large (Magnitude ⁠) Global Earthquakes Occur on Preferred Days of the Calendar Year or Lunar Cycle? Author: Susan E. Hough Abstract: No.

Or @seismosue.bsky.social with the greatest abstract in the history of seismology pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...

I’m guessing this big ole storm hasn’t hit the tron yet! Definitely not evening lounging outside weather!

Rashi escaped!

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