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Ruben Fernandez, PhD.
@rubenfr-nyc.bsky.social
Instructor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. Lymphatics, cancer metastasis, and Immunotherapy. Opinions are my own. Ex-College swimmer. Concert-goer. Nerd.

R2=0.9998, who am I? Am I suddenly @juliesdimartino.bsky.social ?
March 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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"La única lección de la Historia es que los seres humanos no aprendemos nada de las lecciones de la Historia".
Aldous Huxley.
February 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Por favor ❤️
February 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Igloo Studio (Thailand) is developing a new animation project called "Shed N Shine".
They have already produced "My Daemon" (the 1st ever thai-japanese anime, available on Netflix).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ht_...
February 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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First they came for my trans students and I said nothing because it didn’t affect my budget…
February 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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good morning. a $2.6 billion dollar battery factory in georgia has been canceled

the company blames market conditions and battery prices but they were also seeking a loan from the federal government to make the project pencil out
February 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Desde hoy tenéis en Netflix la maravillosa «Te estoy amando locamente».
February 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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New multi-talented antibody-based therapeutics on #WorldCancerDay: The Horowitz lab is collaborating with Purple Biotech to enhance tumor-specific immunity against multiple cancer types by activating NK and T cells within the tumor microenvironment with CAPTN-3 www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
Purple Biotech Announces Research Collaboration with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for CAPTN-3 Tri-Specific Antibody Platform
Collaboration to explore the immunoregulation of NK and T cells within the tumor microenvironment (TME) by CAPTN-3, with the goal of enhancing...
www.globenewswire.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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American documentary photographer and photojournalist
Esther Bubley.

New York City, c.1951.
#Photography
January 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Excited to share our newly published work in Clinical and Translational Medicine! Led by Sally Claridge during her PhD in Dr. Benjamin Hopkins’ lab at Cornell, this study advances translational medicine in ovarian cancer, with promising implications for patient outcomes.

tinyurl.com/y9wua8az
Functional genomics pipeline identifies CRL4 inhibition for the treatment of ovarian cancer
A precision medicine pipeline identifies ovarian cancer sensitivity to CRL4 inhibitors. CRL4 inhibition induces activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling as identified by RNA sequenc.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The EU is in no mood to beg for favorable treatment in the face of Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.

Instead, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has mapped out a vision of the bloc as an economic heavyweight that can forge new alliances.
EU tells Trump’s America: We have other options
Ursula von der Leyen casts Europe as an economic heavyweight that can forge new alliances during another “America First” presidency.
www.politico.eu
January 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
December 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Me: I was waiting for the Argon laser to warm up
December 20, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Esta foto es HISTORIA‼️
No son todas los que están, ni están todas las que son pero lo que ha unido #DragRace que no lo separe NADIE 💗✨ #FotoFamiliarTravesti
December 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Princess Mononoke #anime #memes
December 5, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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Delighted to introduce our new spatial transcriptomics tool, SpottedPy, allowing the identification of tumour hotspots at different scales and the exploration of distances and overlap with tumour microenvironment niches: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
December 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Update on the cell counter situation: The countess 3 systematically undershoots cell counts by 30% and has caused us to loose a bunch of resources trying to get a protocol going.
a close up of a man 's face with a surprised expression .
Alt: Dean Winchester saying it’s not cool, and I am forced to agree. But what shall we do? Carry on, I guess…
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Age-related decline in CD8+ tissue resident memory T cells compromises antitumor immunity
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Age-related decline in CD8+ tissue resident memory T cells compromises antitumor immunity - Nature Aging
Exploring how aging compromises antitumor immunity, the authors reveal an age-related impairment of cytotoxic CD8+ TRM cells in mouse tumor models and clinical samples. They implicate BFAR signaling a...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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Hypoxia-Associated Gene Signatures Are Not Prognostic in High-Risk Localized #ProstateCancer Undergoing ADT With Rad tx

Findings suggest variability in ADT’s hypoxia-modifying effects might undermine the biomarkers’ predictive utility.

@achoud72.bsky.social

www.redjournal.org/article/S036...
November 20, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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Katie will soon publish the rest of her PhD work on the role of NOTCH1 in HCC and cancer plasticity. Her unpublished work is already available in bioxriv and complements the story published in Cancer Discovery: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
NOTCH1 drives tumor plasticity and metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma
Liver cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, has two main subtypes: hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), accounting most of the cases, and cholangiocarcinoma (CAA). NOTCH pa...
www.biorxiv.org
November 21, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Very excited to share our latest publication on the role of NOTCH1 in sexual dimorphism in liver cancer and published in
Cancer Discovery! Super proud of Katie Lindblad for leading this study as part of her outstanding PhD work.
NOTCH1 Drives Sexually Dimorphic Immune Responses in Hepatocellular Carcinoma - by Katherine Lindblad1, @amaialujambio.bsky.social and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...
November 21, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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swimswam needs to come on here
November 14, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Very happy to leave the other "social network".
November 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM