Naveen Jain

@naveen-jain.bsky.social

Future physician-scientist in internal medicine and incoming intern @UCSF | @UPenn '25 | @WashU '16 | functional genomics, lineage tracing, rare cell biology

1/ Really neat case I helped with on my inpatient hematology rotation at @pennmedicine.bsky.social. Won't say too much to avoid spoilers, but definitely a head scratcher. Thank you to everybody who helped care for her and also Dr. Caren Solomon and @nejm.org for a constructive revision process!

NEJM.org@nejm.org · 11mo ago

A 37-year-old woman presented with a 4-day history of pain, swelling, and bruising on the upper portion of her left knee after using a massage gun. She reported no other bruising or bleeding apart from chronic menorrhagia. Read the full case details: nej.md/3HHMwrP #MedSky

Contrast-enhanced computed tomographic angiogram of the chest.

Apparently cancer cells can pass defective mitochondria, effectively a metabolic poison, onto T cells as a mechanism of immune evasion. Who knew! Importantly, specific mtDNA mutations also predict poor clinical response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer in the tumour microenvironment - Nature

Mitochondria with mutations in their DNA from cancer cells can be transferred to T cells in the tumour microenvironment, which leads to T cell dysfunction and impaired antitumour immunity.

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Just saw Ricardo Mallarino present his lab's innovative work on uncovering the molecular mechanisms of developmental programs driving biological diversity in a number of nonconventional model organisms. This study in particular in sugar gliders blew my mind! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emx2 underlies the development and evolution of marsupial gliding membranes - Nature

Patagia—the mammalian gliding membrane—repeatedly originated through a process of convergent genomic evolution, whereby the regulation of Emx2 was altered by distinct cis-regulatory elements in indepe...

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