Barbara Cheifet
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Chief Editor @naturebiotech, running and science fanatic All views my own.
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Joined February 2024
🔥"Postdoc Night Science Boston" will have its first meeting November 21st at 3:30 at MIT! Postdocs: join us for a session on importing/exporting ideas across research fields! I'll lead this together with @zilberzwige🙏 Register here (limited spots): https://t.co/GYZJvQHfbx
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Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by @peixotors et al. https://t.co/yYQZO4Gm6b
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“We’re very excited to see what people do with this” AlphaFold3 is open at last
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If you want to read something besides election news today, I will suggest my editorial on miRNA therapeutics - the history and possible potential. https://t.co/DZLSk0lpOW
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Detailed maps that pinpoint the positions of cells in tumours are offering insights into the development of several cancers and could provide leads for potential treatments
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Nature - Charting the evolution of cancer at single-cell resolution could open up avenues for early diagnosis and treatment.
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Regulatory reforms will boost African vaccine production and access. Comment from Nicaise Ndembi and colleagues @AfricaCDC @_AfricanUnion
https://t.co/Gdd0bquNke
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Nature Medicine - Growing momentum to transform the African regulatory landscape should enable 60% of the vaccines needed in Africa to be locally produced by 2040.
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Some great tips for making software public, and usable! (Isn't that the point?)
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Our October issue is out now and we're talking about bioremediation, the FDA’s approval of the first T cell therapy for solid tumors, and a new course from CHOP focused on the basics of academic entrepreneurship (which I will be attending next week!) https://t.co/s9mxeOz1Yc
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NBT's October issue will be online soon, but you can read this month's editorial a few days early. This month, I'm writing about about how biotech can benefit from new platforms and initiatives around using real-world health data for clinical trials: https://t.co/qIc79yP2iI
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Nature Biotechnology's September issue is live! This month, we cover biological foundation models, enzymes that boost "rock weathering" to trap CO2 in soil, and issues using spike-in normalization for ChIP-seq. Read these articles and more here: https://t.co/l64krPiEcU
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My editorial at NBT this month discusses avian flu and mpox outbreaks in the wake of COVID19 - and Nature has followed up on this with a nice editorial also. Links to the two articles below: https://t.co/iVgBan6Taz
https://t.co/y3UuKGo5cV
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An interesting feature in Nature about testing AI in medicine - which is currently messy. There are steps that can be taken to make it less so. https://t.co/LG6LPKgnkh
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Nature - Hundreds of medical algorithms have been approved on basis of limited clinical data. Scientists are debating who should test these tools and how best to do it.
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Nature Biotech's August issue is now live - multi-drug screening in single animals, the patentability of molecular de-extinction, and an editorial written by one of our senior editors on the cultivated meat that's entering your grocery store. https://t.co/21CPF3GlZH
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Had a great conversation with Madeline @mad_lancaster about human multi-cellular models of disease, evolution and development for the @NatureBiotech Forum Podcast moderated by Barbara @BCheifet
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There is an urgent need for more effective strategies to preselect patients for therapies, mitigating the risk of administering ineffective, potentially harmful drugs and speeding up the process for patients to receive the most effective treatment https://t.co/aL86VDd37Y
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Creative approaches, all of which are desperately needed, to address the antimicrobial resistance crisis https://t.co/EafBBNyecc
@Nature including #AI, harnessing natural products
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Nature - Humans are locked in an arms race with microbes, but scientists are pursuing diverse approaches to keep one step ahead or slow down the competition.
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Our July issue of Nature Biotechnology is out now! We cover new technology for in vivo lung editing, the use of fungi for bioremediation and how patent expiration date errors can result in hundreds of millions of dollars in added costs to drug prices. https://t.co/eLWCJze84m
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Companies are engineering B cells to produce gene-encoded medicines, but clinical proof of concept is needed to convince the doubters that this platform can deliver
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Nature Biotechnology - Companies are engineering B cells to produce gene-encoded medicines, but clinical proof of concept is needed to convince the doubters that this platform can deliver.
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Loved this interview in Nature - with fascinating, gorgeous images. https://t.co/tHXVQvAnPc
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Steve Gschmeissner images tiny creatures and viruses to show the public an unseen world
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Check out Nature Biotech's June issue - featuring an editorial on the potential of gene editing for ag bio, news reporting B cells as "biofactories", and a discussion of disclosure of medical AI patents. https://t.co/bn1SOecFDs
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