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Colin Ratcliffe

@colindhratcliffe.bsky.social

EACR/AstraZeneca postdoctoral fellow. Cancer research, biochemist and microscopist. PhD: @McGillGCI Post-Doc: @TheCrick

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Organoids in a dish are next to one another. Treatment stops some of them from growing but their neighbours just keep going. What’s the difference? Hint: it’s not genetic

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

18.06.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to presenting our work on response and resistance to AKT inhibition tomorrrow at #EACR2025 If you’re around come by poster #315

17.06.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blue skies and sunshine for this week’s #EACR2025 meeting in Lisbon. Exciting to bump into fellow EACR/AZ awardees and chat PI3K signalling. Looking forward to sessions on metastasis, plasticity and RNA biology today.

17.06.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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5th Crick International Cancer Conference

The deadline for early bird registration for the 5th Crick Cancer Conference has been extended.

See the full programme and book by 15 July to take advantage of reduced ticket rates for early bookers ‡️ www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...

03.06.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A flurry of tiny, bright orange-red blobs with groups of wispy white lines scattered throughout.

A flurry of tiny, bright orange-red blobs with groups of wispy white lines scattered throughout.

This is an image of a mouse's cancerous cells, taken with a special confocal #microscopy technique that allows us to see cells inside live organisms πŸ§ͺπŸ”¬

13.01.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So I did a bit of a search around and these are the past and present Francis Crick Institute folks that I could find.

I can't guarantee they're talking about science, but if they are, you know it's going to be cool science πŸ˜‰

FYI - @thecrick.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/2tMmrSY

19.11.2024 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

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