Applications are now open for the 2026 Experience Postgrad Life Sciences Programme!

➡️ Find out more and apply: www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk

#SummerResearch
#LifeSciences
#CambridgeUniversity

We are hiring! 🔭🔬

We would like to share a very exciting Job Opportunity at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for a Research Assistant / Research Associate. (Fixed Term)

For more information or to apply click here:

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

A new protein-based tool - courtesy of @atomicvirology.bsky.social - is boosting the fight against Oropouche virus.

Find out more ➡️https://bit.ly/45pjia2

#oropouchevirus #slothfever

Are “exosome facials” the future of beauty — or a dangerous trend?

Researcher James Edgar warns on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health that unregulated exosome treatments marketed for anti-ageing and skin rejuvenation may pose serious health risks.

🔗 www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/are-aes...
#exosomes

Mums, a young survivor & researchers met in Cambridge to fight ALCL—a rare cancer.

From grief to action, their bond is reshaping research & care. This is what global solidarity, love & science can do. 💜

➡️ bit.ly/3U20MOo

@sdt36suzanne.bsky.social

#RareCancer #HopeInAction #PatientVoices

Got a transplant? It turns out that you might be able to tell beforehand if the COVID vaccine will work for you. Scientists used immune profiles + machine learning to figure it out.

An excellent summary ➡️ bsky.app/profile/labl...

How does HPV turn from a silent infection into cervical cancer?

New research by @konstanze1.bsky.social shows that gene deregulation—especially of E6 & E7—drives cancer risk in the cervix’s transformation zone.

Full study: doi.org/10.3390/v170...
#HPV #CervicalCancer

New from the Koronakis Lab: PAK proteins can still influence cell shape even when switched off. 🧬

Drug-inhibited PAKs altered actin structure via unexpected PIP3 buildup—changing how we think about targeted cancer therapies.

➡️ bit.ly/4nqgqk2

#CellBiology #CancerResearch

PaCIFiC Facility launch marks a milestone in Cryo-Imaging at Cambridge

➡️ www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/pacific...

Our #FamilyDay is well under way! So many fun learning activities come and join us! #camfest2025

A new study published in @nature.com by Dr Jie Yang of @roychoudhurilab.bsky.social has uncovered a novel mechanism by which aspirin inhibits cancer metastasis by strengthening the body’s immune response.

➡️ Read now: www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/groundb...

We have a fantastic PhD Studentship Opportunity!

Discovering the determinants of host tropism of an emerging livestock pathogen

Anticipated Start Date: October 2025
Duration: 3.5 years full-time
Apply until 16.02.25

More>> www.pirbright.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Our very own Professor Ashley Moffett of Reproductive Immunology was awarded the prestigious CMP for Women’s Reproductive Health. The foremost international authority on the immunology of human reproduction, her work has helped explain high rates of pre-eclampsia and maternal mortality in Africa.

A new pre-print by Francisco Berkemeier in the Boemo Lab published in @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social highlights DNA replication timing and reveals genome-wide features of transcription and fragility.

➡️https://bit.ly/3DjkgZO

DNA duplication has been revealed as a key cause of testicular cancer

👀https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/dna-duplication-revealed-key-cause-testicular-cancer

#testicularcancer #dnaduplication

Finally, there is hope on the horizon🌅—excitement over the pancreatic cancer jab

➡️https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/finally-there-hope-horizon-excitement-over-pancreatic-cancer-jab

#pancreaticcancer #cancervaccine

Despite breast implants being linked to cancer, surveys suggest that the breast implant market is growing at 7% per year.

Professor Suzanne Turner comments➡️https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/breast-implants-linked-cancer

#breastcancer #breastimplants