This week’s journal club focuses on a study from PNAS (2025) proposing that coordinated multi-node inhibition can achieve deep and durable pancreatic tumor regression.
This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Transl Psychiatry (2026) reporting on astrocytic dysfunction within the cerebellum suggesting a widespread disruption of astrocyte-mediated communication across the brain in depression.
by Ulrik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Nature (2026) proposing that Parkinson’s disease (PD) may involve early pathology in the enteric nervous system (ENS).
by Lucas Unger This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Science Advances (2022) describing how predator-prey evolution has generated several somatostatin analogs used in venoms.
by Agnes Sandvik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from BMC Genomics (2024) using single-cell sequencing datasets to characterize the transcriptional identity of islets from in vitro differentiation, fetal islets, and adult islets
by Fatemeh Rahmatabadi: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. (2017) promoting Cantrixil as a promising anti-cancer agent targeting resilient cancer-stem–cell populations.
by Ulrik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Nature (2025) characterizing the early cellular changes that might lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy in young athletes exposed to repetitive head impacts.