AiLab_Protein_Engineering_UVA
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Protein engineering | Biosensors | Optical imaging | Synthetic biology | Redox & neuronal signaling | Translating discovery to diagnostics | Chemical biology
University of Virginia
Joined June 2025
Ai Lab @MedicineUVA lab-run account sharing work at the intersection of chemical biology, imaging, and protein engineering and theraputics. We post:.🧪 Break down discoveries (ours+others).🧠 Highlight cool questions in biology.🌍 Tools, papers & ideas to connect the dots.
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@HuiwangA @nozomi62 @MedicineUVA @CornellBME Xiaodong Tian, Yiyu Zhang, Haoyang Du, Wenyuan Huang, Laurie Anne Bizimana,.#CalciumImaging #Bioluminescence #Neuroimaging.#GeneticallyEncodedIndicators #InVivoImaging.#BrainResearch #Neuroscience #Bioengineering.#SyntheticBiology.
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⚡️From our lab: Meet eBRIC, a red bioluminescent Ca²⁺ sensor with up to ~5× more responsiveness than BRIC!.Designed under physiological Ca²⁺, it tracks real-time brain activity in awake mice. Pushing the limits of deep-tissue imaging. @ACS_Sensors .🔗
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Arginine isn’t just a protein building block; it’s a central player in immunity, cellular ageing, and even skin disease. But until now, researchers lacked a specific tool to track its dynamic changes inside living cells.
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RT @davidrliu: Today in @CellCellPress we report the use of prime editing to correct several mutations that cause alternating hemiplegia of….
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What if you could watch immune signals live in the brain without perturbing the system?.This new cpGFP-based CCR2 sensor does exactly that. 📈 Fluorescence ↑300% in response to CCL2. A leap for neuroinflammation tools. 🔗
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RT @nchembio: “A transposon-like strategy for proteins” - A News & Views by Barbara Di Ventura highlights recent work @ScienceMagazine on u….
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Nature Chemical Biology - Transposition is normally considered a DNA-based process. Now, scientists have devised a means to carry out a similar transformation — this time using proteins. The...
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RT @ScienceNews: With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into paracetamol, charting a path to upcycle plastic….
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With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.
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RT @NatureBiotech: Prime editor-based high-throughput screening reveals functional synonymous mutations in human cells - @PKU1898
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RT @EricTopol: This is wild! .Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol) .@NatureChemistry . https://t.co….
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