Guocan Wang
guocanwanglab.bsky.social
Guocan Wang
@guocanwanglab.bsky.social
Associate Professor @UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. A cancer biologist studying prostate cancer, epigenetics, metabolism, and tumor microenvironment. Weill Cornell/SKI BCMB alum.
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Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/
Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed
Based on analysis of 2024 NIH funding data. Sums are totals of losses in funding to programs if indirect costs had been capped at 15%
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February 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Tired of traditional peer review? 

Join the Discovery Stack Pilot study to help reshape scientific publishing! 

Contribute as a Reviewer or an Author.

Learn more here: bit.ly/DiscoverySta...
#ScienceRevolution #PeerImprovement #DiscoveryStackPilot #immunosky
December 13, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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I’m excited to share our latest study led by @giuliapasquesi.bsky.social out today in @cellpress.bsky.social , uncovering a new way transposons have been repurposed for human interferon signaling! Read on for a thread on cryptic splice variants, decoy receptors, and viruses (1/N) 👇🧵 #TESky 🧪
Regulation of human interferon signaling by transposon exonization
Transposable element exonization can yield functional protein isoforms as seen for primate-specific IFNAR2.
www.cell.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6
A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (Gift Article)
Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Delighted for my first Bluesky post to be in celebration of the work of Ronnie (@nightscientist.bsky.social) — can’t say enough about his talent & creativity! If you’re interested in the link between dietary fructose and cancer, check out his paper.
#metabolomics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth indirectly via interorgan lipid transfer - Nature
Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth in animal models of melanoma, breast cancer and cervical cancer indirectly via metabolite transfer.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Mind blown🤯

Just playing around with Google's NotebookLM.
notebooklm.google

You upload a PDF of your favourite paper and it spits out a great podcast 🎧

Enjoy a 60s snippet about our recent work in Nature on γδ T cells.

The level of understanding is amazing!

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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美国各州平均预期寿命,寿命低的也是集中在“圣经带”。
November 28, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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旧金山湾区四个刚上大学的学生回家过感恩节,开特斯拉皮卡出去玩,失控撞到路边的树,当即起火,没法扑灭,有一个被路人冒险救出、严重烧伤,另三人在车里出不来被活活烧伤。特斯拉皮卡没卖出多少,事故不断,开这种车就是害人害己,对别的车、行人都是严重威胁,应该禁止上路。
November 28, 2024 at 2:07 AM