Nicholas Navin
@nicholas_navin
Professor & Chair, Department of Systems Biology
Excited to be presenting a HeadTalk “Your Brain on #Beethoven” integrating live Brain-Computer Interface #BCI mapping at @AANmember Annual Meeting on 4/8 at 8-9am. I will also be sharing research highlights from #MusicInMedicine. In-person and virtual. aan.com/msa/Public/Eve…
Fully rejuvenated from my first #Summit: two opening-night keynote sessions: a 60-min talk highlighting the innovative #clinicaltrials and innovative #wellness initiatives at #MusicinMedicine @MDAnderson; followed by a recital with live #BCI #brainmapping. #peakhumanperformance
Congratulations to @nicholas_navin @MDAndersonNews and the @humancellatlas team for mapping the panorama of the “normal” breast epithelium. And surprise, surprise: Normal breast tissues harbour rare populations of aneuploid epithelial cells nature.com/articles/s4158… Mean ~3%…
So proud of our lab for attending the Stand up for Science rally in Los Angeles yesterday. You will make a difference ❤️ @NafPascal @isam_adam1 @hannysavage @KessenbrockLab @UCIrvine
Time for it… Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis 2025 | CSHL meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?c…
Had a wonderful time presenting our latest work on aneuploid epithelial cells in normal breast tissues at @SABCSSanAntonio in a session by @ReubenHarris together with @cncurtis and @ashleylaughney for a standing room session on tumor evolution

Reuben S. Harris, Nicholas Navin, Christina Curtis, and Ashley Laughney discussed "Tumor Heterogeneity and Evolution" in an educational session at #SABCS24. @nicholas_navin @cncurtis @LaughneyLab
Tumor Heterogeneity and Evolution: Nicholas Navin, Christina Curtis, and Ashley Laughney will address this topic in an educational session at #SABCS24 (December 10-13). Learn more: bit.ly/4f5sZw3 @nicholas_navin @cncurtis @LaughneyLab
A certain type of cells, called aneuploid epithelial cells, are usually associated with #breastcancer. However, new #research led by @nicholas_navin from 🇺🇸 @MDAndersonNews reveals that these cells can also be found in healthy women. dlvr.it/TGTHgv
What gets erased when you integrate single cell data, and can you recover it? Finally, we know what happens and how to recover the lost signals. So excited to share CellANOVA, published online today in NBT! go.nature.com/4hZnzW5
Recovery of biological signals lost in single-cell batch integration with CellANOVA go.nature.com/4hZnzW5
Happy Thanksgiving with the most impressive KM curve you’ll see today. PFS for first line nivo/ipi vs chemo in MSI-H mCRC. 🛻 Truck test: <0.001 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Gentle reminder: even if you don't mask regularly, please mask inside airplanes.
How droplets from a cough flow through an airplane cabin when the virus is airborne. Video from Qingyan Chen, Purdue Univ. School of Mechanical Engineering
Hidden Chromosomal Abnormalities Found in Healthy Breast Cells An @MDAndersonNews study reveals that at least 3% of normal breast cells in healthy women contain chromosomal abnormalities associated with invasive breast cancer. These findings, published in @Nature, challenge…
New paper from our group in @Nature by @YiyunLin_YL @junkewang @KaileWang and team reporting the unexpected discovery of aneuploid epithelial cells (3%) in normal breast tissues from healthy women raising the question of when is cancer really cancer? nature.com/articles/s4158…
Normal Breast tissues harbour rare populations of aneuploid Epithelial Cells @Aiims1742 @nicholas_navin @MDAndersonNews @humancellatlas oncodaily.com/url/189133 #Cancer #Bcsm #MedEd #MedX #MedNews #Health #Medicine #OncoDaily #Oncology
Why we never select music for a clinical trial based on genre, songwriter or composer, and record and prepare our own music for each study targeting specific clinical outcomes. #musicmedicine #musictherapy #wellness #classicalmusic #neurosurgery #fmri #eeg #musicintervention
In addition to our study in @Nature today on aneuploid cells in normal breast tissues, there is a beautiful study in @NatureGenet by @SohrabShah @sajraparicio Joan Brugge that reached similar conclusions in normal breast and BRCA1/2 germline carriers: nature.com/articles/s4158…
New ways to think about cancer evolution. An amazing project published today from our lab!!
New paper from our group in @Nature by @YiyunLin_YL @junkewang @KaileWang and team reporting the unexpected discovery of aneuploid epithelial cells (3%) in normal breast tissues from healthy women raising the question of when is cancer really cancer? nature.com/articles/s4158…
Findings from a recent MD Anderson study question conventional thinking on the genetic origins of breast cancer, which could influence early cancer detection methods. Learn more: brnw.ch/21wOOZz @nicholas_navin #EndCancer
I’m thrilled to share our discovery in rare aneuploid cells in normal breast tissue!We also find interesting associations in copy number events between normal breast and breast cancer. Please check out our paper for more details.
New paper from our group in @Nature by @YiyunLin_YL @junkewang @KaileWang and team reporting the unexpected discovery of aneuploid epithelial cells (3%) in normal breast tissues from healthy women raising the question of when is cancer really cancer? nature.com/articles/s4158…