Duke Research

Happy Pi Day! Ingrid Daubechies, a distinguished mathematician, created a special cookie cutter to make perfectly tessellated sugar cookies to mark 3/14. View the video at duke.is/zbsg7

A “cancer rainbow” mouse 🌈
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A ”cancer rainbow” mouse being used by Joshua Snyder’s Cancer Initiation and Cancer Cell Behavior Lab at Duke University highlights different versions of the crucial HER2 gene and may help explain different outcomes in HER2-positive human breast cancers.
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Their work (Ginzel, Acharya, and Lubkov et al.) shows that each version of HER2 (shown by different colors) is associated with early changes to epithelial cell fate, tumor growth rate and invasiveness. This image is the October cover of Molecular Cancer Research.
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