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Drugging RAS: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been – Channing Der addressed this topic in a keynote address to open the AACR Special Conference on RAS Oncogenesis and Therapeutics.
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Dieter Saur, Zachary Hauseman, James Duncan, and Jennifer Klomp discussed "Effector Signaling" in a plenary session at the AACR Special Conference on RAS Oncogenesis and Therapeutics.
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My amazing 93 yo grandmother out protesting today

Trump administration ends emergency abortion requirement for hospitals The Trump administration rescinded a Biden-era policy requiring hospitals to perform emergency abortions regardless of state abortion laws.

When a pregnant woman is having a medical emergency, doctors are required by law to provide life-saving care. That includes abortions.

Donald Trump and RFK Jr. think they should be the ones to make decisions in emergency rooms — not your doctor.

This will hurt women everywhere.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Today, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) called on Congress to reject the Administration's nearly 40% cut to the NIH budget and allocate a bipartisan funding increase to $51.3 billion for the agency to accelerate progress for patients. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...

Agreed. Unfortunately some students and AI are learning bioinformatics with a similar strategy: choosing the most popular solution as the right one. This is reinforced by proceeding through code without an error, rather than designing the appropriate analyses with controls.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere. People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—but what they fear he will do next.

This Is the top story on @motherjones.com, as it should be on every news site. Millions of people turned out to oppose Tump/Musk/facism yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Join us THIS FRIDAY, March 7th, 12-4pm, in Lansing to #StandUpForScience!

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Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist, and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, is retiring from the government agency and urging “respect” for its embattled workers.

"When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on years of research supported by NIH"

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In September in Geneva we applauded a major milestone in the effort to eradicate measles and rubella viruses from the face of the earth.

Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed.

This is not greatness.

ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

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Inhibition of GPR68 induces ferroptosis and radiosensitivity in diverse cancer cell types Scientific Reports - Inhibition of GPR68 induces ferroptosis and radiosensitivity in diverse cancer cell types

Hong lab is on a roll in 2025! Our latest paper showing GPR68 inhibition induces #ferroptosis & #radiosensitivity in diverse cancer cell types like lung & pancreatic cancer cells. Therapeutic synergy with radiation therapy. #SpartansWill rdcu.be/d8rGf

Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Identifies Epithelium-Macrophage Crosstalk in Endometriotic Lesions The mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of endometriosis, characterized by the presence of endometrium-like tissue outside the uterus, remain poorly understood. This study aimed to identify cell...

Our latest publication is now online!

Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Identifies Epithelium-Macrophage Crosstalk in Endometriotic Lesions: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

KRAS Oncoprotein Signaling in Cancer | NEJM Recent studies provide new insights into signaling by mutant KRAS, inhibitors of which have provided modest benefits for patients.

Nice summary of our work highlighted in NEJM (@jennyklomp.bsky.social)
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Hi #immunosky @rafrancescone.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc candidate interested in immunology, with experience in flow cytometry, to run projects exploring mechanisms of immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer. Come to beautiful Michigan! Official announcement soon. DM us

ERK-dependent protein phosphorylation in KRAS-mutant cancer: a mix of the expected and surprising Recently developed KRAS inhibitors have delivered clinical benefits but their antitumor efficacy remains limited. A recent study by Klomp et al. repor…

Nice summary of our recent work.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I would love to be added to this!

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I made a starter pack for people interested in signal transduction! Please include yourself or others!

Tagging a few people to spread the word: @drstarbird.bsky.social @fantauzzolab.bsky.social @alextoker.bsky.social

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Include me please!

Defining the KRAS- and ERK-dependent transcriptome in KRAS-mutant cancers How the KRAS oncogene drives cancer growth remains poorly understood. Therefore, we established a systemwide portrait of KRAS- and extracellular signal–regulated kinase (ERK)–dependent gene transcript...

Congrats to the Der Lab team and all of our wonderful collaborators on two great studies just published in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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