#tumours

[mindblowingscience]

A fascinating new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, has revealed an unexpected potential benefit of severe COVID infection: it may help shrink cancer. This surprising finding, based on research conducted in mice, opens up new possibilities for cancer treatment and sheds light on the complex interactions between the immune system and cancer cells – but it certainly doesn't mean people should actively try to catch COVID.

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[phoen1xr0se]

Just wanted to drop in and say I’m thinking of you. No-results-just-an-urgent-appointment is really scary, and that’s before you take into account the burdens you carry every single day. Hoping you’re able to be kind to yourself in this maelstrom, and that GO can offer you some comfortable familiarity in waiting rooms, on exam beds, and the like.

It was scary, but nowhere near as scary as what my mind was imagining, so that has been a definite relief. One new tumour, separate from the rest and possibly a different type, inaccessible because it’s attached to my lung, they’re just gonna monitor it for now because it isn’t very big, and then come up with a Plan B if it grows.

So no immediate surgery, which is the main thing. Really couldn’t handle that right now 😣

Good Omens has been, for the most part, a very comfortable and soft place for me to rest, and lots of you have been so kind to me during my silent struggles and forgiving me how long it takes me to write stuff and respond to things. It means a lot, to have found a community here.

(I will try to be kind to myself, too)

Thank you for this really sweet message 💙

[bpod-bpod]

Spread on Chips

A micropatterned chip that mimics the natural conditions of tumour spread into surrounding tissue in 3D. Invasive (metastatic) potential of cancer cells can be measured, and therapeutics screened

Read the published research article here

Still from a video from work by Smiti Bhattacharya and colleagues

Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, August 2024

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[biology-geology-beaches-india]

TSRNOSS. Page 302.

[s2rt-han-r]

Episode 16 of my podcast is now available.

In this episode I look back on my concerns about my craniotomy causing personality changes, what did happen to me and how things are going now two years later. open.spotify.com/show/7ejKe9hK0CEhukktFzjbhg

[bluesummit]

The latest research (2021-2024) unveils the grim truth of preventable illnesses and accidents that claim countless lives across India. Let's prioritize public health and safety to stem this tragic tide.

[baltharino]

House M.D. (2004-2012) 1x01 // 8x22

[coldarena]

hate to see a crazy bitch get domesticated

[blood-orange-juice]

So. Remember Dainsleif saying this about ruin guards?

We now know that Khaenri'ahns could create devices that could host the souls of the dead. I think I know how exactly they "resonated".

We've also seen Dottore making a ruinguardesque thing out of his assistant in the manga.

I think it's possible to make an educated guess about what ruin guards are.

[not-poignant]

sometimes the chronic illnesses are just really exemplary at being both chronic and illnesses and i wish they'd try a little less hard

[bpod-bpod]

Malignant Memoir

Using single-cell and spatial (across the tumour tissue landscape) multi-omics (including profiling the genome and gene activity) – to map the evolution of colorectal cancer and its microenvironment simultaneously as the disease progresses. Insight for stratifying disease type and treatments

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Cody N. Heiser and colleagues

Program in Chemical and Physical Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Published in Cell, December 2023

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[s2rt-han-r]

Episode 13 of my Podcast is now available.

[sillygoofyqueer]

Mean Girls but the Three Tumours are the Mean Girls.

Of course, Shi Wudu as Regina George - both massively bitchy and are obviously in charge of their respective trios.

Ling Wen as Gretchen Weiners - extremely knowledgeable, the intelligence gatherers of the group and so obviously five seconds away from mental breakdowns at any point in time.

Pei Ming as Karen Smith - himbo to bimbo communication. They have no idea what's going on but they get laid and look soooo pretty while doing it :3

[tigerjpg]

was chatting with my new coworkers last week and the topic of marvel movies came up unfortunately and i mentioned tws being pretty much the only one i like and one of them went "oh yeah i remember seeing people ship those two guys back in the day" and i had to be so normal like i genuinely think i should win an oscar for the masterclass in acting that followed that. oh really? captain america and...what's the other one's name? bucky, i think? yeah i think i heard about that.

[xia0ming56]

IM ALIVEEEEE!!!!

Hi guys im not dead i hav js had a vv chaotic july might b slower on posting now cos of uni tho but thx for sticking around :,))