Dr. Stefania Kapsetaki
@steffikapsetaki.bsky.social
👩🔬🔬 🎹 Postdoc (IMBB-FORTH) Visiting Lecturer in Biology (Frederick University) Alumna: Postdoc (Arizona State University, Tufts University) MSc & PhD in Zoology (University of Oxford) MSc in Science Communication (Hellenic Open University)
Science4all (science4all.info) : a new website where students of the Master’s in Science Communication program at the Hellenic Open University write articles on various scientific topics. Happy to participate with my article “Πράσινο είναι: προχώρα! H δενδροφύτευση ωφελεί την ανάπτυξη των νεογνών.”
Science For All – Κείμενα φοιτητ(ρι)ών του ΠΜΣ του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου Επικοινωνία της Επιστήμης»
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📈 #TrendingWithImpact: The #Review, "How to live for centuries: common denominators of organisms with exceptional longevity," was recently published in Volume 18. #PressRelease ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4jnjzl3 #Aging #Longevity #Lifespan #Healthspan #OA #PeerReviewed #Publishing
Exceptional Longevity Across Species Linked to DNA Maintenance, Stemness and Stress Resistance - Aging Journal
A new review was published in Volume 18 of Aging on September 8, 2026, titled “How to live for centuries: common denominators of organisms with exceptional longevity.”
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Μια νέα ανασκόπηση μελετών με ελληνική υπογραφή ρίχνει φως στους μηχανισμούς που οδηγούν κάποια είδη στο να ζουν εκατοντάδες ή και χιλιάδες χρόνια, ανοίγοντας δρόμους και για την έρευνα στην ανθρώπινη αντιγήρανση.
Τα μυστικά των «πρωταθλητών» της μακροζωίας - ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ
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Happy to share our latest review in @aging-us.bsky.social with Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis @ntavernarakis.bsky.social 🧬🌳🪼⏳ 🔗 doi.org/10.18632/agi... #Aging #Longevity @imbb-forth.bsky.social
How to live for centuries: common denominators of organisms with exceptional longevity | Aging
Organisms vary in their lifespan. Understanding this variation may help us live healthier and longer. Here, we focus on species living twice as long as humans, or more. Out of the 101 multicellular s
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New #preprint: @steffikapsetaki.bsky.social , Tomer Landsberger www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Do individual planaria exposed to the same stressor find the same, or different, transcriptional solutions to that problem? 🧪
Transcriptional Profiling of Planarian Regeneration Habituating to Physiological Stressor Reveals Individual and Collective Dynamics
Exposure to the potassium channel blocker barium chloride (BaCl₂) causes head degeneration in Dugesia japonica flatworms, followed by regeneration of BaCl₂-insensitive heads, offering a unique model f...
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Leveraging Comparative Phylogenetics for Evolutionary Medicine: Applications to Comparative Oncology academic.oup.com/emph/advance...
Leveraging Comparative Phylogenetics for Evolutionary Medicine: Applications to Comparative Oncology
Abstract. Comparative phylogenetics provides a wealth of computational tools to understand evolutionary processes and their outcomes. Advances in these met
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Happy to share our latest work on #immune cells, #cancer, and #trauma mortality across mammals. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thanks to colleagues from @uarizona.bsky.social, @utah.edu, @NCSU, Peel Therapeutics, North Carolina Zoo, @UCSB, and @ASU.
Immune-cancer analyses across mammals reveal a potential trophic level and platelet-linked tradeoff between cancer and trauma mortality
There may be fitness tradeoffs between wound healing, immune responses, and cancer development due to shared pathways, limited resources and conflicting selective pressures. The immune system is impor...
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Are you working on “New Techniques in Cellular Social Evolution”? As a Guest Editor for JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) I invite you to submit your abstract to this collection: app.jove.com/methods-coll... #social #evolution
What is the bioelectric pattern of immortality and mortality in hydra? Happy to share our latest work with Angelina Pimkina, Patrick McMillen, @parandetayyebi.bsky.social, @drpatricke.bsky.social, and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social in the journal Bioelectricity! www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
The Bioelectrics of Immortality and Mortality in Cold-Sensitive Hydra oligactis | Bioelectricity
Introduction: Bioelectric properties of cells are an important aspect of development, regeneration, and cancer. Because of their relevance to the establishment and maintenance of tissue form and funct...
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New study on diet, plasma glucose, and cancer prevalence across vertebrates published in Nature communications (@naturecomms.bsky.social) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Leveraging Comparative Phylogenetics for Evolutionary Medicine: Applications to Comparative Oncology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637459v1
Big new comparative oncology paper! Zachary Compton and a large multi-institutional team analysed 16,049 necropsy records for 292 species spanning three clades of tetrapods to identify species with exceptionally high or low cancer prevalence. Free to read at doi.org/10.1158/2159...
