Not all variants increase risk of MASLD.🧬 Protective variants such as: 🛡️ HSD17B13 🛡️ MTARC1 can reduce the progression of fibrosis and liver-related complications. Understanding both risk and protective variants is essential 🧠🥼 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Genes do not act alone, epistatic relationship between inductor and protector variants is important to be consider in clinical trials and treatments. 🧬 The interaction between MASLD-associated variants may shape fibrosis progression and liver cancer risk link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now @christianmolinaag.bsky.social, star technician at our lab @liigh-unam.bsky.social, is telling us about the #acral #melanoma models 🧫🐁 he has been developing with the wet lab team #LIIGHColloquium2025

And @christianmolinaag.bsky.social, who supported these studies since the beginning in a crucial way, @patriciapossik.bsky.social & @davidjadams.bsky.social, the eternal #LA #melanoma team, and Rob Judson-Torres and Rich White, who helped us interpret our results. Massive thanks to Hector Martinez..

Gracias a Alejandro López y a @elpaismexico.bsky.social por cubrir nuestro último estudio en #melanoma #acral, realizado estudiando pacientes mexicanos 🇲🇽 Con @pbasurto.bsky.social y @christianmolinaag.bsky.social en portada, investigadores clave en este estudio 🤓💻🧬🧫

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Un estudio en pacientes mexicanos revela detalles inéditos del melanoma acral, el subtipo de cáncer de piel más común en Latinoamérica dozz.es/lu_nt1

We're on Apple Podcasts! Catch up with the Voices podcast, where we hear inspiring personal stories from academia, like that of Christian, who turned his mental health struggles into a spotlight on the unique challenges researchers face in Mexico.

Voices 5: Christian Molina-Aguilar

Podcast Episode · eLife Community Voices · 05/14/2025 · 27m

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"Take care of your physical, emotional, and mental health in your daily life, especially in science, which tends to be very demanding." "Be persistent; it's never too late." "Be kind, enjoy every stage; everything is a learning curve." Are powerful advice as part of the "My Science and

From the talk "Genes, Code, and Decisions" given by @axelrdzp.bsky.social (from @ENES juriquilla and @vib-ccb.bsky.social in @jchrismarine ´s lab), we receive a lot of advice for young researchers making life decisions. "Share your ideas, ask questions frequently, present your project as often as

We are two weeks away from concluding our 5th summer school, and in the "My Science and My Life" Series of Meetings, we are grateful to our next speakers. Axel Rodríguez Pérez (from ENES Juriquilla - UNAM and VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology), Felipe de Jesús Castañeda-Córdova (from

Now, I would love to share with you the progress of my research in liver fibrosis (video in Spanish) carried out in @liigh-unam.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1557...

For science, academia and life: "The path of others is not yours", "opportunities don't come to you, you seek them out" and "surround yourself with the right people" were some of the inspirational advice shared by @FerArriaga_09 student from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and

"Life is not a straight and smooth road, but a path full of potholes, unexpected changes of direction, and sometimes generating a lot of uncertainty" is one of the inspiring messages shared by @mrtrni.bsky.social . Also she presented THE 3 FEMALE SCIENTISTS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED HER IN BECOMING THE

after two weeks of cell culture training by @alexxacv.bsky.social , students assessed the mammalian cell transformation by plasmid and through GFP expression,.is an exciting and powerful moment for the 5th summer school students at @liigh-unam.bsky.social

"Believe in yourself" and "validate your feelings on the roller coaster of emotions that science represents" were some of the tips that @RebecaOLE_ shared with 5th summer school's students at @liigh-unam.bsky.social She is student from laboratories directed by @konstant and @davidjadams.bsky.social

The transformation of bacteria with plasmid for amplification is a basic but powerful technique. Many thanks to @mrtrni.bsky.social (from @liigh-unam.bsky.social ) for their teaching in the 5th summer school

Christian Molina-Aguilar is a postdoctoral rearcher in Mexico. He's also running one of the largest surveys ever done on researchers' mental health in the country. He recounts the lived experiences that inspired his project in Voices. 🎧 buff.ly/uGFKuWB

Community | eLife Community Voices | Episode 5 · eLife

Christian Molina-Aguilar speaks on the joy, resilience, and struggle of doing science in Mexico.

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Thanks to PanAmerican Society for Pigment Cell Research and @colgate-palmolive for your support and scholarship, now Zuly Dannae Martínez García from @universidad Verscruzana is attending our 5th summer school at @liigh-unam.bsky.social organiced in the @daniela-oaks.bsky.social 's lab.

Nothing better to start school than a duel for the grand cup of chicks. Teachers against students... teachers win 2 to 1. @liigh-unam.bsky.social

After a lunch break, now it's turn for our own Valeria M. Cuevas! She has been working with Kenya and Christian in our lab to study gene expression in a rat model of hepatocarcinoma 🐀🧬 #LCGUNAM @liigh-unam.bsky.social

5th summer school cikcof at @liigh-unam.bsky.social organized by the @daniela-oaks.bsky.social 's lab was exciting, and the big battle to win the cup of chikens (picture 3) team teachers Vs team students was very funny. Do you want to know the final score? tomorrow will share the score and videos

🇲🇽 What is it like to be a researcher in Mexico? @christianmolinaag.bsky.social talks with Voices about the compounding influences of a busy career, language barriers, a pandemic and parenthood on his mental health and how it inspired Achicopaladito. buff.ly/S19cmml