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Nicky McGranahan

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Professor of Cancer Evolution. UCL Cancer Institute. Interested in cancer genomics, bioinformatics, and somatic evolution. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/divisions/cancer/our-research/cancer-genome-evolution

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Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI

(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

31.10.2025 08:45 👍 181 🔁 53 💬 2 📌 5

I wanted my first @bsky.app post to be witty, thoughtful & somewhat self-depreciating. I wanted to make sure I could highlight all the exciting computational cancer evolution research my lab does, without sounding too arrogant. But, instead I posted this. (At least it's within the character limit.)

13.10.2025 10:13 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An excellent systematic analysis of RBPs by @quaidmorris.bsky.social and colleagues (with a tiny contribution from us) #RNAsky #RNAbiology

29.07.2025 01:41 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Fluctuating DNA methylation tracks cancer evolution at clinical scale - Nature Cancer evolutionary dynamics are quantitatively inferred using a method, EVOFLUx, applied to fluctuating DNA methylation.

Studying cancer evolution needs multi-region or single cell seq for phylogenetics, right? Amazingly (I think!) we found single-sample bulk methylation suffices, via analysis of "fluctuating methylation". In @nature.com today led by brilliant @calumgabbutt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10.09.2025 15:21 👍 91 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 2

Very excited to share our new paper on the influence of biological sex and smoking in the clonal landscape of normal human bladder, just published in Nature.
A big thank you and congrats to all the authors, specially to @raquelbmi.bsky.social for all the shared efforts in this journey!

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08.10.2025 18:04 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Clone copy number diversity is linked to survival in lung cancer @nature.com @zaccasimo.bsky.social @nickymcgranahan.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

13.08.2025 18:23 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0