Enrico Pracucci

Lund Stem Cell Center researchers receive Blue Flame Award for contributions to open science Lund University. Plasmids are small, circular DNA molecules that serve as important tools in biological research. They are often used to deliver specific genes or gene-editing components, such as CRIS...

🧬 When research tools are shared, science moves faster.

In 2018, @ahleniuslab.bsky.social published a Nature Methods protocol to generate astrocytes from stem cells.

Henrik Ahlenius & Isaac Canals now receive the Blue Flame Award for sharing the plasmids via @addgene.bsky.social 👇
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Did you know cells from a patient’s brain tumor can be grown in the lab as 3D “organoids”?

In this image by @enricopracucci.bsky.social postdoc in @ahleniuslab.bsky.social, green glioblastoma cells are being reprogrammed into less harmful glial-like cells using an experimental gene therapy. #SciArt

Back from the European Glial Meeting #glia2025 in Marseille! I presented a poster on our #iPSC -based #glioma modelling in Henrik Ahlenius’s lab at Lund Stem Cell Center. Great to meet new people and see where glia research is going!

@ahleniuslab.bsky.social @lundstem.bsky.social

Going to #GLIA2025 ?
Check posters T21-004A and T24-013B
The team will be represented by Alicja presenting our AD modeling by direct conversion of fibroblasts to astrocytes and neurons, and Enrico will present our inducible BRAF fusion iPSC and cerebellar organoid model of pilocytic astrocytoma.

Programs, origins and immunomodulatory functions of myeloid cells in glioma - Nature A study of myeloid cells in gliomas, a type of brain tumour, used a factor-based computational framework to reveal four immunomodulatory gene-expression programs that are expressed across myeloid cell...

Programs, origins and immunomodulatory functions of myeloid cells in glioma | @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intrinsic electrical activity drives small-cell lung cancer progression - Nature Electrical excitability in neuroendocrine SCLC cells promotes tumour progression through action potential firing, increasing ATP demand and oxidative phosphorylation dependency, whereas non-neuroendoc...

Did you know cancer cells can be electrically active, just like neurons? This electrical activity plays a key role in tumor progression. Excited to share my first postdoc paper at @crick.ac.uk (and first paper from Leanne Li lab), published in @natureportfolio.nature.com!