The Ovarian Cancer Midwest focus meeting is now open for registration. Please join in Minneapolis, MN November 10-11 for an amazing line up of speakers including Ernst Lengyel, University of Chicago, and Joan Brugge, Harvard Medical School.

The NIH has posted that it "seeks exceptional senior-level candidates to lead Institutes and the Intramural Research Program within the NIH." A rather comprehensive list of nearly all major Directorships one thinks of in science. Unfilled, with close dates that are approaching within 2 weeks.

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

Looking forward to the next episode of #ConnectOvarCoffee ☕️where I will join Runsi Sen from #ovariancancer advocacy organization Ovarcome to talk about Breaking the Code and Disrupting Cellular Communication for Ovarcoming #ovariancancer. Nov 13 LIVE on #YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8...

Great #Halloween learning from @nanets.bsky.social ! #neuroendocrinetumors #neuroendocrinecancers

Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life. (Published Aug. 2024) By @lisalsong.bsky.social

Tylenol and Pregnancy: What are the facts around the prenatal use of acetaminophen? Newest episode of Only Oncologists In the Building @shrutipatelmd.bsky.social @shaalanbeg.bsky.social @cancerassassin1.bsky.social now available for viewing and debate: youtu.be/l5m-PveziDY

Art heists may sound glamorous, but stealing priceless cultural artifacts doesn't always pay off like you'd expect. We talked with a veteran art thief, a lawyer, and an expert on heist economics. n.pr/4oxXHCV

Talking breast cancer with University of Minnesota - Q&A with my colleague Dr. Stuart Bloom, medical oncologist extraordinaire twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/...

Stop everything. Now read: via @cellpress.bsky.social: "The potato evolved from the tomato 9 million years ago..." www.cell.com/news-do/pr-p...

It’s me, hi 👋 I’m the scientist, it’s me. My new peer-reviewed study asks does Taylor Swift actually make Travis Kelce play better? 🏈🎤 The manuscript on Taylor Swift is published in @plosone.org journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans - from Chef Andrew Zimmerman in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Nice and refreshing to see 1/6 Nobel laureates speak out openly against the ongoing destruction of science in the US. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Performing some team teaching today on Neuroendocrine Cancers by sharing this excellent figure from 2024 expert consensus statement by Drs. Chauhan et al @cacancerjournal.bsky.social acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/...

The Nobel prizes will be announced starting Monday, and they’re considered the most famous awards in science. In the past few years, though, a number of other prizes have popped up. Nature examines how these prizes compare with one another. 🧪

#CancerGrandChallenges IMAXT in @nature.com: Using CloneSeq-SV, the team tracked ovarian cancer clones and found: • Resistant clones often exist from diagnosis • ctDNA spotted recurrence ~8 months earlier than imaging • Actionable drivers (e.g. ERBB2) can be revealed www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating bit of the history of #oncology that came to my attention recently: The world's oldest known cancerous tumor - 1.7 million years! from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa - with rendering included in this 2016 publication sajs.co.za/article/view...

#TunnelingNanotubes are membranous extensions of cells that mediate cell contact-dependent intercellular transport of organelles and viruses. In our recent study of SARS-CoV-2 in tissue from patients, we found them in post-infected samples from matched tissue specimens. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

ICYMI: New online! A neurobiotic sense curbs feeding: a new frontier in gut–brain communication

Clinicians can enhance patient understanding by using numerical data instead of verbal probabilities, consistent denominators, absolute risk comparisons, and clear context for unfamiliar data types. ja.ma/46pab9T

"NCI is the only one of NIH’s 27 institutes and centers whose director is appointed by the president, although the position does not require congressional approval." @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown? Have you considered becoming a rock star? It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪 Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

There are strong indications that micro- and nanoplastics exposure negatively impacts human health, but a robust evidence base is lacking. A Review in Nature Medicine focuses on the current state of the science. go.nature.com/47H9Q3s #medsky 🧪

Re-upping this: For those of you having new students in the lab, I have curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I usually have my students watch it before I show them how to do it in the lab.

In patients with localized colorectal cancer and PIK3CA hotspot mutations in exon 9 or 20, daily low-dose aspirin resulted in a significantly lower recurrence rate than placebo. Full ALASCCA phase 3 trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/4mpKXNp #MedSky #Oncology

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Today 62 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Centers released a statement reinforcing the importance of HPV vaccination. HPV vaccination is safe and protects against six types of cancer – including oropharyngeal, cervical, and anal cancers. #HPVvaccine #HPVvax #EndHPVCancers

Precision nutrition, microbiome, viral reservoirs…and more! Check out Episode 2 of our Only Oncologists in the Building videocast and smash that Subscribe button! With Drs. @shrutipatelmd.bsky.social & @shaalanbeg.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLe... #oncology #video #podcast #YouTube

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Special issue presented by @cp-neuron.bsky.social on cancer neuroscience⚡🧠 www.cell.com/neuron/issue...

From our U of MN Medical School research team: press release highlighting our recent publication in @cellpress.bsky.social journal @cp-iscience.bsky.social w/implications for Long COVID in immunocompromised patients with cancer and transplant: med.umn.edu/news/researc... #COVID #LongCOVID

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

"the GI epithelium can serve as a long-term COVID reservoir, potentially driving inflammatory syndromes" in the gastrointestinal tract [of immunocompromised cancer patients in the study] #LongCovid www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

One more diabolical trick of cancer cells: transferring their mitochondria to fibroblasts to promote their growth nature.com/articles/s43...

“Cathartocytosis”👇 Cells “vomit” waste in a hidden healing shortcut that could also fuel cancer Newly discovered purging process in gastric cells hints at how injury recovery can go wrong. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

From our team, in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: SARS-CoV-2 infection drives local inflammation of the intestinal epithelium in immunocompromised patients with cancer. Potential implications for Long COVID syndrome and overlap with GVHD in patients w/stem cell transplants. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

University of Minnesota researchers studied 3 cancer patients after COVID. They found viral elements in the gut lasting up to 49 days, triggering persistent inflammation and scarring. The intestine may act as a COVID reservoir. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Fungi and plants have something to teach humans about global trade and cooperation.

I'll be posting more about this post-proof, but the pre-proof version is now online @cp-iscience.bsky.social and we are thrilled to get this story out: SARS-CoV-2 infection drives local inflammation of the intestinal epithelium in immunocompromised patients with cancer. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

"It's people who will get cancer in 10, 20 or 30 years who will really pay the price." We're literally defunding our future survival.

Nature research paper: Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy go.nature.com/45v2oqw

I'd go so far that we are loosing several generations of scientists and with them discoveries, cures, new technologies. It is unfathomable.

Seriously?!? As if the current #science environment isn’t brutal enough! Now fake acceptance letters.

@currentbiology.bsky.social has always been one of my favorite journals but I think they have now outdone themselves www.cell.com/current-biol.... And picked up by the @nytimes.com as well! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s...

Introducing a new, high-yield CME program @mskcancercenter.bsky.social designed to streamline preparation for the ABIM certification & recertification exams in Medical Oncology. Registration is complimentary for all fellows. Learn more: bit.ly/MedOncReview2025 #MSKAcceleratedMedOncReview

How Red Wine Lost Its Health Halo www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/w...

This is such an important point. The VAST majority of funding for research comes from NIH. Stand Up To Cancer just had their telethon. In 2023 they raised an impressive $60 million for cancer research. But the NCI (at NIH) had a budget of $7.2 billion that year. Charities cannot compete.

Interested in Neuroendocrine Tumors and want to pitch a Regional Conference for your area for 2026? @nanets.bsky.social has extended the deadline for applications to next week, August 22. See this link for more details and complete the intake survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/TJM3P8M