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Bacteriologist. Veterinarian. Teacher. Mom. Wife. Daughter. Sister. Mentor. Fighter for social justice.PDAC survivor 6 yrs. @hpolymenis.bsky.social

Texas, USA
Joined November 2018
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Thank you @DoloresHuerta for block walking with us @YoungDemsBCS for affordable housing yesterday despite the rain. Your presence and encouragement were so inspiring to us!
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🤯 stuff in @Cell_Metabolism! Exercise not just for your own self, but for the sake of your kids…..Transgenerational inheritance of the beneficial effects through sperm 👉🏽 Paternal exercise confers endurance capacity to offspring through sperm microRNAs cell.com/cell-metabolism/ful…
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Incredible dataset in @CellGenomics Predictive prioritization of enhancers associated with pancreatic disease risk sciencedirect.com/science/ar… 3D enhancer promoter mapping across five cell types in the normal pancreas paired with CRISPR based perturbation experiments. @amundadottir1
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New @CR_AACR paper from @Pasca_Lab @UMICHpancreas Fibroblast STAT3 Activation Drives Organ-Specific Premetastatic Niche Formation aacrjournals.org/cancerres/a… Characterizing the premetastatic niche not in #PancreaticCancer but in precursor lesions that precede invasive neoplasia.
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Nice review here in @NatRevClinOncol The tumour microenvironment in #PancreaticCancer — new clinical challenges, but more opportunities nature.com/articles/s41571-0… By Lei Zheng @mayscancer @KimmelCancerCtr
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One theme from #AACRPan25 There is tremendous excitement about KRAS trials in #PancreaticCancer but I am BEGGING reviewers & editors to understand that we are still PRIOR to that inflection point where paired biopsy samples from patients are widely available to investigators.
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19 antibody drug conjugates approved globally, 15 is USA, over 400 ADCs in development, new generation of ADCs under investigation. Dr. Daruka Mahadevan on pre-clinical consideration in ADC Development.
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Kudos to @PanCAN for creating the SPARK data platform containing vast troves of clinical, imaging, laboratory & molecular data from Precision Promise and Know Your Tumor. Fabulous resource for #PancreaticCancer researchers in both academia and industry. @sdosssdoss
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Of course there’s no scientific basis for adding autism to the vaccine injury program. But MAHA was never about science, it’s the opposite: a system of pseudoscience and health disinformation designed to enrich a corrupt wellness/influencer industry
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#AACRPan25 kicks off today in Boston. Expecting to see lots of connections to KRAS inhibitors (KRASi) in #PancreaticCancer. Looking forward to the @sgpcri Award Lecture by Frank McCormick.
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This is why we fund science. And experimental gene therapy.
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Many thanks ⁦@KatyTurNBC⁩ for hosting me as I explained the >100 autism genes in early fetal brain development and the genetics of autism. Also the known environmental exposures linked to an autism phenotype such as valproate but why the Tylenol link is much less convincing
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#OpenAccess in @AnnualReviews Road Map to Defeat #PancreaticCancer By Paige Ferguson and David Tuveson @CSHL annualreviews.org/content/jo…
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Working families are working harder and harder and harder — for less. When I say our economy is rigged, this is what I mean: prices keep going up, but John Cornyn and Ken Paxton are focused on making sure corporations and rich donors turn record profits. Enough is enough.
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Of all RFK Jr's anti science crap..this for me is one of the very worst The HPV vaccine is on the way to ELIMINATING CERVICAL CANCER in many countries And he wants to stop it For him..even cervical cancer is better than a vaccine Sick
RFK Jr.: "Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we've ever seen. This vaccine targets millions of preteens and teens for whom the risk of dying from cervical cancer is zero. Nobody in their right mind would ever take this vaccine if they actually read the clinical literature." "Death rates in the Gardasil trials were 37 times the death rates for cervical cancer. Children who take that vaccine, the Gardasil vaccine, are 37 times more likely to die from the vaccine than they are to die from cervical cancer. The problem with Gardasil, like most vaccines, is it was never tested against a true placebo, an inert placebo." "And the CDC and HHS say, if you don't test it against a true placebo, it's not science. You have no way of gauging whether the injuries you're seeing from the product are being caused by that product, or whether they're just bad, sad coincidences. The entity that is actually performing the study is, and paying for the study, is Merck." "Merck got to decide which injuries were being caused by Gardasil and which were just bad coincidences. And because it had that power, it just wrote them all off as bad coincidences." "You can do that when there's no placebo, because the injuries they were seeing in the control group, where the girls were getting aluminum neurotoxins, were identical to the injuries they were getting in the Gardasil group." "So they said, well, we don't have to report any of these as vaccine injuries. They were able to license something that is insanely dangerous."
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Some White House RFK Jr announcements expected early this week about autism, I will be explaining why autism is not related to vaccines
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🚨 Quality and Quantity? Our latest paper is out! Radiation in metastatic pancreas cancer? This manuscript maps out how we came to understand RT as more than a last resort. doi.org/10.1016/j.semradonc.… I spent 4 years trying to launch EA2244, a co-op group trial to test this paradigm.
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We are canceling the fine arts college. It’s not political; we have to buy out the football coach and this action gets the university a quarter of the way there.
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Radiation day two. This is how they keep you really really still when the beam is on.
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So X today generated multiple tweets like this, all making the same false claims. Indeed Covid vaccines do save lives + reduce mortality. I will attach articles. Maybe it’s being done to influence public opinion ahead of what could be a fact-free ACIP meeting/pseudoscience fest?
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