stephxie.bsky.social
Firstgen immigrant scientist, mom and partner. Studying metabolic and inflammatory heterogeneity in🩸and leukemia stem cells. Allan Slaight Scientist@Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Assistant Prof@UofToronto avid orchid lover. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦citizen.
👤 Joined on 17 September 2023
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@stephxie.bsky.socialI’m just not sure I’m cut out to be a mom after all. Teenagers are hard. And you can’t MAKE them do anything. Years of providing healthy meals - sure, but if they won’t eat them?
Show PostTerry Fox-funded researchers have identified blood stem cells that can remember inflammation long after an infection is gone. Stress from inflammation may alter cells behaviour, drive blood cell aging and raise cancer risk. Learn more about this bold Terry Fox-funded research: tinyurl.com/yxwmx88f
Show PostMy mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.
Show Post🚨 #NewPublication alert! A new @nature.com study from scientists at @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk has discovered that human blood-forming stem cells can “remember” past inflammation—memory that may influence health and disease outcomes. 🔗 Read more: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/5-27-20...
Show PostTuesday’s sunrise over DC! @capitalweather.bsky.social @ianlivingston.bsky.social
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