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Marisa Martin-Fernandez

@octopus_imager

Group Leader of STFC Central Laser Facility's Octopus Imaging cluster

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There is so much you can do besides counting them … like finding an alternative route to fight cancer … ?check our work … doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

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Check out our recent paper: a step forward in our search for better treatments in lung cancer. Now we understand much more … at a crossroads?

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We found that lung cancer mutations assemble within hetero-conformational oligomers active dimer subunits that bind EGF with high affinity, driving tumour growth.

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The resolution we obtained was crucial to identify unexpected differences between cancer-driving mutations and the normal state that we should hopefully be able to exploit in the future.