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Pete Nicholls
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Caffeinated Lecturer Bradford Uni researching germ cell tumours and reproductive biology. Priors at Whitehead Institute, Monash Uni.
🚨 New work from the Amanda Loehr and Bob Weiss at Cornell! Circulating miRNAs that can detect germ cell tumors in humans are also present in a mouse model of these tumors (they're even detectable in pregnant mice carrying offspring that later develop a tumor‼️)

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Analysis of a mouse germ cell tumor model establishes pluripotency-associated miRNAs as conserved serum biomarkers for germ cell cancer detection
Scientific Reports - Analysis of a mouse germ cell tumor model establishes pluripotency-associated miRNAs as conserved serum biomarkers for germ cell cancer detection
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February 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Yeesh. This earns you a fail in third year genetics if you think that sex has been determined at fertilization.
January 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reposted by Pete Nicholls