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Alison London
@alisonlondon.bsky.social
MSc graduate. Senior laboratory technician in #cancergenomics at University of Helsinki. Interests: #science #naturalhistory #beetles #film #games #watercolour
Check out the new blog from the Finnish CoE in Tumor Genetics! Unlocking Cancers Weakness by Zhijia Wang (Taipale group). #geneexpression #CDK

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Unlocking Cancer’s Weakness: Targeting Transcriptional CDKs with Small Molecule Inhibitors
The research by Zhijia Wang focuses on identifying small-molecule inhibitors targeting transcriptional CDKs (CDK7, 9, 12) in cancer cells to halt uncontrolled growth. By screening various compounds…
tumorgenetics.blog
May 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Reposted by Alison London
Reposted by Alison London
Our newest paper by Joonas Uusi-Mäkelä et al. about the lncRNAs and their relations on growth and prognosis in diffuse gliomas is out now in Scientific Reports. Study was done in collaboration with NykterLab. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Exciting new work from Zhiyuan Xie et al. in the Taipale Group exploring the intricacies of transcription factor interactions in gene regulation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature
A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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New paper published! Structural features of somatic and germline retrotransposition events in humans. Congrats Päivi et al!👏 @coeintg.bsky.social
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Structural features of somatic and germline retrotransposition events in humans - Mobile DNA
Background Transposons are DNA sequences able to move or copy themselves to other genomic locations leading to insertional mutagenesis. Although transposon-derived sequences account for half of the hu...
mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM