Merry Christmas everyone

So proud my postdoctoral work is finally out!

We designed an assay to measure cfDNA and DNA mutations in samples collected simultaneously to lower limits of detection in liquid biopsy assays, using clonal hematopoiesis as an example.

Read the article here:
www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Women with #GDM with high ursodeoxycholic acid levels in the blood following #UDCA treatment are more likely to have fasting glucose within recommended ranges, suggesting potential benefit in GDM management🤰

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New paper update! bsky.app/profile/jmsc...

Very much enjoyed A Complete Unknown because I love Dylan and Chalamet was incredible playing/singing as Dylan- whole thing very diverting. But ultimately, it was basically gloriously, beautiful karaoke. If I didn’t like/know Dylan I think I’d have been utterly bewildered/bored.

We are hiring! 3-year BBSRC-funded postdoc position available. TEs, epigenetics, pregnancy: if you love one or more of these keywords, apply through the link below.
Please spread the word.

I do wonder whether/how long the Mail can hold off going all in on Farage? Shilling furiously for the Tories is looking increasingly unhinged.

I thought the cybertruck looked better afterwards. 💁🏻‍♂️

Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax then moved his business to Singapore. He's the real victim here.

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

Sorry. But this right wing media howling about landowners and employers having to pay a bit more tax is tiresome.
Where was your analysis and anguish over the impact of Brexit on…
trade
farming
travel
fishing
businesses
education
the arts
science
healthcare
the costs and losses for *all* of us…?

Recently I moved from offspring to maternal health, studying the role of bile acids in pathogenesis of human GDM. I found serum bile acids are associated with insulin resistance, and increased in GDM in European (but not in South Asian) women: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On #WorldPrematurityDay these are the researchers working to bring down the number of preterm births in the UK (around 53,000 a year). Headed by Professor Catherine Williamson from Imperial College London, their work has already reduced preterm birth in intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy #liver