Lu in Cambridge

Resolvi criar um blog tambem para mim assim quem quizer saber de mim estou aqui a contar as minhas aventuras por terras de sua altesa real, A rainha:)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Cambridge May Week!!!!!




Depois do baile do Trinity, o Wolfson June Event foi divertido, principalmente porque o grupinho era muito fixe:):)

..mas TENHO SAUDADESSSSS! Está tao perto!!
Yupyyyyy

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Feira de Vaidades



Uma feira de vaidades e nos nao quisemos destuar!!!

Trinity May Ball


e no baile o que se faz???Onde esta a valsa e as dancas de salão??

Pois nada disso...dois concertos fantasticos, Scouting for Girls e The Wombats...muito muito bons!!! mas foi estranho estar num sitio onde normalmente estaria de calças de ganga e tennis, com salto alto e vestido pipi...irreal mas brutal!!!

tres fontes de chocolate (preto, branco e de leite) onde se podia escolher entre o tradicional morango, os profiterols, marchemelos, cookies entre outros...
a tenda dos Djs a bombar, o Jazz para relaxar e pequenos espetaculos de magia e opera...o casino nao poderia ter faltado nem o insuflavel à moda dos lutadores americanos (imagimem o que sou eu la no meio com um vestido nao muito apropriado à situação...divinal:p).
tudo isto acompanhado sempre com um copo de champanhe, a noite toda...

Firework at Trinity College May Ball 2008



um fogo de artificio de 10 minutos ao som da banda sonora do Sweeney Todd logo seguido de Mika...uma combinacao extrondosa:p
Um fogo de artificio tao espetacular que as pessoas invadem o rio de barcos, deixa de se ver a agua, apartir das 7 da tarde quando este so acontece as 11 da noite.
Este fogo de artificio faz parte de um baile, o baile do colegio mais rico de Cambridge, o baile se gundo dizem, mais "in" de Cambridge...e este ano eu fui:)

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Human Molecular Genetics!!!

Somatically Acquired Hypomethylation of IGF2 in Breast and Colorectal Cancer

Yoko Ito, Thibaud Koessler, Ashraf E.K. Ibrahim, Sushma Rai, Sarah L. Vowler, Sayeda Abu-Amero, Ana-Luisa Silva, Ana-Teresa Maia, Joanna E. Huddleston, Santiago Uribe-Lewis, Kathryn Woodfine, Maja Jagodic, Raffaella Nativio, Alison Dunning, Gudrun Moore, Elena Klenova, Sheila Bingham, Paul D.P. Pharoah, James D. Brenton, Stephan Beck, Manjinder S. Sandhu and Adele Murrell,

Received April 9, 2008; Revised May 21, 2008; Accepted May 23, 2008

The imprinted Insulin-like growth factor 2 gene (IGF2) is expressed predominantly from the paternal allele. Loss of imprinting (LOI) associated with hypomethylation at the promoter proximal sequence (DMR0) of the IGF2 gene was proposed as a predisposing constitutive risk biomarker for colorectal cancer. We used pyrosequencing to assess whether IGF2 DMR0 methylation is either present constitutively prior to cancer or whether it is acquired tissue-specifically after the onset of cancer. DNA samples from tumour tissues and matched non-tumour tissues from 22 breast and 42 colorectal cancer patients as well as peripheral blood samples obtained from Colorectal cancer patients (SEARCH (n= case 192, controls 96)), breast cancer patients (ABC (n= case 364, controls 96)) and the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC-Norfolk (n=breast 228, colorectal 225, controls 895)), were analysed. The EPIC samples were collected two to five years prior to diagnosis of breast or colorectal cancer. IGF2 DMR0 methylation levels in tumours were lower than matched non-tumour tissue. Hypomethylation of DMR0 was detected in breast (33%) and colorectal (80%) tumour tissues with a higher frequency than LOI indicating that methylation levels are a better indicator of cancer than LOI. In the EPIC population the prevalence of IGF2 DMR0 hypomethylation was 9.5% and this correlated with increased age not cancer risk. Thus IGF2 DMR0 hypomethylation occurs as an acquired tissue-specific somatic event rather than a constitutive innate epimutation. These results indicate that IGF2 DMR0 hypomethylation has diagnostic potential for colon cancer rather than value as a surrogate biomarker for constitutive LOI.

Saturday, June 07, 2008

E hoje comeca...



Muitas duvidas ha se o nosso Portugal vai longe neste campeonato europeu, mas a esperanca e a ultima a morrer e nos por aqui vamos fazendo figas para que tudo corra bem...FORCA PORTUGAL!!!