Blanca Valle

Blanca Valle received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. She completed postdoctoral training at NIH and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she studied cancer chemo-preventive agents and tumor progression using ovarian cancer cells and mouse models, and performed epigenetic studies to identify biomarkers in body fluids of ovarian and cervical cancer patients. Besides her passion for the cancer and epigenetic research fields, she also loves to dance, jog, and read.

A Novel Role for RNA Methylation (m6A) in the DNA Damage Response

Every day our cells undergo substantial amounts of DNA damage from exogenous and endogenous sources. UV light, in particular, can…

7 years ago

Introducing WERAM: Find Integrated Info on Your Histone Regulator in Your Favorite Species

Recently Dr. Yu Xue’s group, at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, developed a database designated…

7 years ago

The Epigenetic Marks of Circulating Cell-Free DNA (cfDNA)

Circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) are small DNA fragments found circulating in plasma or serum, as well as other bodily fluids.…

8 years ago