Mikaela Loach, 'I thought the best way to create change in this world was to become a doctor' Mikaela Loach - It’s Not That Radical 📖🇵🇸

'When I was on the wards I noticed people were sick, not just because of disease, but because of the social conditions they're living in, their housing, their poverty..

Women are 4-times more likely to have autoimmune diseases than men. Why is this?

From Dou et al. in Cell, today

In females, the second X chromosome is silenced by a long non-coding RNA, called Xist (pronounced 'exist') - males don't express Xist

Xist, together with almost

MB PhD OPPORTUNITY 2024! Funded PhD positions available for highly motivated University of Edinburgh or University of Glasgow medical students! Details in the attached image and at the link below 👇:
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No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against HPV, Public Health Scotland has revealed.
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Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real.

It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time.

Thus if you give one

This looks like a really nice resource for those of us studying #skincancer #scc , congrats to the authors!

See our new paper that maps disease progression in squamous skin cancer (or cSCC). 🧬

This work aims to help future prognostication and to illuminate potential therapeutically actionable targets. 💊

nature.com/articles/s4146…

New paper:

Driver gene combinations dictate cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma disease continuum progression Edinburgh Cancer Research Institute of Genetics and Cancer Edinburgh Medical School Patrizia Cammareri Dr Mairi Treanor-Taylor

nature.com/articles/s4146…

🦸‍♂️ This surgeon turns children into superheroes before their operation! ❤️

Melanoma skin cancer cases in the UK have reached an all-time high. With 17,500 cases being diagnosed per year, our projections revealed these numbers could continue to increase by around 50% over the next 20 years.

Find out what’s causing this 👇 1/2 bit.ly/3O2o4Bu

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature

In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a 'minimal genome' (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…).

Today, a group of scientists from

The professional photos arrived.

Thank you to ESDR for funding my attendance at ISID2023Tokyo and allowing me the opportunity to discuss my research with such an insightful audience.

May is #SkinCancerAwarenessMonth . It’s important to check your skin regularly, limit your exposure to the sun and cover up when necessary to prevent burning.

Speak to you doctor if you notice a change to a mole, freckle or a normal area of skin. Find out more below 👇

To fight climate change, France bans domestic flights where cities are linked by train with a journey time of two and a half hours or less. Will mean flights between Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux and Lyons will be shut down.

Is the first country in the world to introduce such a ban.

Lots of exciting research shared at a wonderful venue and host city. Grateful to share my PhD project and to witness the global effort to better the understanding and treatment of skin diseases. That’s a wrap on #ISID2023Tokyo

Spectacular to listen to Nobel Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka discuss clinical uses of iPS cells, and to share my plenary talk on squamous skin cancer so soon after. I feel awestruck to have shared a stage with such an eminent scientist. #ISID2023Tokyo

Standing room only as The Nobel Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka shares the story of reprogramming skin cells to pluripotent cells at #ISID2023Tokyo

Just published nature
New evidence from 70 years ago: Rosalind Franklin was a co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure
by Matthew Cobb Nathaniel Comfort
nature.com/articles/d4158…

I wrote an essay for the FT - We must slow down the race to God-like AI: bit.ly/3mwP950