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First first author is out! Had a blast figuring out how cancer lines use fructose as a growth substrate with fon this while working in the @MarcusDGon lab
Congrats to @RogerLiang9 for publication of my lab's first paper! He led all this work as a technician😮No surprise he's now a @UTSWmstp cancerandmetabolism.biomedce…
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🗣️ POSTDOC wanted for @Zhu_Lab check out details & research specifics 👇 and join our #relentlessdiscovery in CRI's Tissue Regeneration Program.
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Thanks to Stephanie Melchor for giving me the opportunity to share advice in this @Nature article on transitioning from a postdoc lab. Hope people find it helpful! nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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The NeoChen Lab is recruiting and will start Oct 1, 2026 in Mol Bio Dept @UTSWMedCenter! Looking for creative+passionate techs, grad students, postdocs. We apply the lens of neonatal medicine to study #peroxisomes #mitochondria to advance the care of neonates and beyond. @BWFUND
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This study changed the way I think about cachexia. For a long time we have been looking for tumor-secreted factors that induce sickness and wasting. @ThalesPapaG now shows us that the "sickness signal" can be transmitted directly to the brain via sensory neurons. Congrats to the whole team. #CANCAN @CancerGrand @theNCI @CRUKresearch
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Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology! nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?
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We already thought @Zhu_Lab hung the (liver-shaped) moon🌙 & now his #relentlessdiscovery is promulgated. Check out Chp 6, "When Our Bodies Autocorrect," p140 to read how somatic mutations could give us "hope." Great topic, @rkhamsi! Watch out #booktok 🤓
ALT Hao Zhu stands in front of a window holding the book "Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health."
This week marks the release of my book Beyond Inheritance 🎉 📖. It tells the stories of patients with mysterious ailments who have been saved by a radical new view of genetics. And how whales can teach us about preserving our DNA as we age. Available now: tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n
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🌟From the desk of @SJMorrison_: It's a great day for CRI, which now has 2 @theNASciences members. Congratulations to Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D., and his laboratory on this recognition for the quality and impact of their work! #relentlessdiscovery
cri.utsw.edu/deberardinis-na…
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Congrats @eze_dantas !!
Thrilled to share that @eze_dantas has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine @nyugrossman @nyuendocrine @NYULH_DeptofMed @Perlmutter_CC. Ezequiel has been the driving force behind our basic and translational work on cachexia therapeutics and immunometabolism. Proud to now call him a colleague!
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Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor and Endowed Scholar in @UTSWMedCenter Molecular Biology Dept this Fall! 🥳 We’ll study #peroxisomes #mitochondria #metabolism via the lens of neonatology👶🏻, a very exciting frontier in medicine! #neotwitter
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We are excited to share our vision for the biomedical and translational implications of somatic mosaicism, published in @CellCellPress. This was a fun team effort with @sfbrunner @imartincorena PJ Campbell and others @CRI_UTSW @QuotientTx @sangerinstitute cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Out today in @cellcellpress new work from the lab led by Abby Xie and @jules_stef asks, when and why do cells use the TCA cycle?
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🚨NEW PI ALERT🚨 @Henry_de_belly is in the house, and look at that *fresh* new office. Clean slate for his next #relentlessdiscovery in CRI's Tissue Regeneration Program (TRP). Onward! Read more about his new lab 👉 cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henry-d…
ALT Henry De Belly, Ph.D., stands in an empty office, with blanks walls and an empty desk, and arms outstretched.
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We did genome sequencing on 560 patients with metabolic diseases and found that 6% had a genomic cause - Genome Sequencing Identifies Monogenic Causes in Adults with Metabolic Diseases medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Where do cancers start? In the liver, not all cells are the same. The liver is divided into 3 “zones,” and each specializes in different metabolic tasks. We show in @Science that where a mutation occurs in a liver lobule can determine a cell’s fate. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… (1/9)
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Good news: CRI's @MishraLab & @Zhu_Lab have been selected to develop in vivo genetic screens to identify new regulators of liver #trauma. It's another example of CRI's #relentlessdiscovery toward the treatments of tomorrow.
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TRC4 News: "TRC4 AWARDS $18M IN SECOND ROUND OF GRANT FUNDING FOR TRAUMA CARE RESEARCH"
TRC4 an initiative of the @utsystem, today announced a new round of grant awards totaling $18M to fund research and product development. READ FULL RELEASE: tinyurl.com/33rm4arn
#txlege
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🦖 Something HUGE just hatched.
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Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.
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New preprint! We know cancer cells with somatic mutations are selected to evade the immune system. With @imartincorena Peter Campbell @ZJL1435957 @QuotientTx, we asked if immune cells with somatic mutations are also selected to fight cancer.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/5
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Super cool preprint by @Zhu_Lab @CRI_UTSW
Somatic TYK2 activating mutations in tumor-infiltrating T cells promote anti-cancer immunity
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Are there naturally occurring somatic mutations in lymphocytes that augment anti-tumor T cell function?
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We're growing! Our newest Investigator @Henry_de_belly will join the CRI Tissue #Regeneration Program in January 2026. Learn more about Henry ➡️ cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henry-d… and 📌apply to research in his lab cri.utsw.edu/careers
#relentlessdiscovery
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Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan and healthspan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
