Biancastella Cereser

@biancastellac.bsky.social

Cancer genetics at Imperial College London - working on #breastcancer and #coloncancer, and a mix and match of cool side projects

One of my favourite things about this figure (sketched by Charles Darwin in one of his notebooks in 1837) is the “I think” at the top. Beyond an illustration of his evolving thoughts on descent with modification, the image somehow captures the essence of scientific curiosity. #DarwinDay 2026

Photograph of a page from Charles Darwin’s 1837 Notebook B showing the “Tree of Life” sketch, which gives a glimpse of his early insights into how a set of multiple related species might originate by divergence from a single starting point. The bottom shows a common root with various branches and twigs emerging from different nodes, with labels from A to D. There is a handwritten annotation at the top, reading “I think”. Further handwritten annotations on the right-hand side of the image are thought to state the following. “Case must be that one generation then should be as many living as now. To do this and to have many species in same genus (as is) requires extinction.”

✅ The UK Government has today granted access to half a million UK Biobank participants' coded GP data for health research. This change will dramatically increase the power of UK Biobank's dataset to advance the diagnosis, treatment and management of conditions handled by GPs.

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb. More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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Understanding why cancers relapse - sometimes years or decades after successful treatment - is a major challenge in the cancer field This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why cancer can come back years later — and how to stop it

Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment.

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“A human pan-disease blood atlas of the circulating proteome” is out in Science! 🎉 Seeing this come together has been a highlight of my PhD: exploring proteome profiles across health, aging & disease. Huge thanks to all collaborators & patients 🙌 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A human pan-disease blood atlas of the circulating proteome

The human blood proteome provides a holistic readout of health states through the assessment of thousands of circulating proteins. Here, we present a pan-disease resource to enable the study of divers...

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FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

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