A single E. coli weighs about one picogram, or 60 million times less than a grain of sand. How do we know that? For my latest @AsimovPress essay, I explain how scientists weigh cells. In one case, in the 1950s, they did it using little more than sugar water and a microscope.

Join us at the Nobel Symposium Multiple Sclerosis: Past, Present and Future Treatments June 5th, 2025 | Jacob Berzelius lecture hall @karolinskainst| Stockholm, Sweden free registration at: https://t.co/ojDm6ZngKI

Delighted to share a step-by-step protocol for spatially resolved epigenome-transcriptome co-sequencing to map tissue development, aging & disease. Fully committed to open science!! ⁦@sennetresearch⁩ ⁦@_hubmap⁩ ⁦@NIH_CommonFund⁩ @NCIHTAN

Join us @karolinskainst to work on spatial genomics. A few days left to apply to the open postdoc position in our lab 👇

We are looking for a research assistant in tumor immunology! @slinnarsson 😍 Apply here: https://t.co/t04nteuC31

Too many people take biomedical innovation for granted.

📢 We're hiring! Postdoc position available at our lab at the Karolinska Institute in beautiful Stockholm to work on exciting projects developing and applying spatial genomics. Apply here: https://t.co/e63IRJ8tlM Email/dm to discuss @karolinskainst #ScienceJobs

I'm Italian. Over the years, it's been painful seeing Europe’s demise: 1960 - EU was 36% of global GDP 2008 - US GDP surpassed EU Today - US economy 50% larger than EU But why such a decline and is there any hope? Here's everything you need to know about the fall of Europe:

🇪🇺 eu/acc @EmmanuelMacron is the only European leader who gets the seriousness of the situation right now: The EU has only 2 or 3 years to stave off total US and China dominance Washington and Beijing are leaving the European Union lagging behind, French President Emmanuel

We had an amazing symposium! Thanks to @SethBlackshaw @naomi_habib @AnnaMolofskyLab @hutson_tom @kathe_claudia, Ariel Levine, Homaira Nawabi and Leonor Saúde for sharing their impressive research and coming to Stockholm. Great fun to have you all here! 🙏@Ellorebo co-organizing.

Engblom lab is hiring a post-doc ! Come join our team to study B cell clonal dynamics in cancer @scilifelab @karolinskainst @CenterforMolMed Position is supported by a KI/SciLifeLab Clinical post-doc grant. With the fantastic Hartman lab @carljhartman https://t.co/gw9sJCpdwZ

Deadline approaching on Sept 13, two weeks to go for the application to a group leader position at our department @karolinskainst!

We have a great lineup covering from mechanisms of CNS regeneration and repair across organisms and technologies all the way to advanced therapeutics. For interested students from the Nordics, there are still a few spots left in the linked one week course:

Thrilled to be hosting the "Cellular Ecosystems in CNS Injury and Repair" symposium with @ChristianGoritz again this year on September 11th, 2024 @karolinskainst @StratNeuro StratRegen MWLC https://t.co/fAluHbzOR4 Register here for free: https://t.co/BxMRcP3q7Z

2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony https://t.co/QEjpe07NTJ

Hiring alert 📢 my lab has TWO openings for a postdoc in computational biology! Please apply if you're interested to work with large in situ RNA-seq datasets and amazed by developing biological neural networks (mouse brains): https://t.co/1QZ1ghViLW https://t.co/cFVNLZK6xK

#PosidoniaOceanica: Not algae, but vital plant🌿 supporting thousands of marine species🐟🦀. 2️⃣million hectares in the Mediterranean, millions of years old. Crucial for nature & humans, yet misunderstood and threatened. Protect this important ecosystem👉 https://t.co/KxFA9FIhSZ

It's been 60 years since Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered. Still, still scientists are continuing to learn fascinating facts about this EBV. A new paper in @Nature by Sylvain Latour and colleagues from INSERM, Paris, report a remarkable human genetics discovery that

Exciting to see Ionis's UBE3A ASO program for Angelman syndrome is making promising progress, with positive results in the initial phase trials. https://t.co/LJbArfjobG There is a fascinating biology behind the therapeutic design here. I've written about it previously

Swedish universities are bled dry by the rent taken from the government owned agency Akademiska Hus, rent increased 17% in the last two years with no increase in base funding. (Average increase ~9%) https://t.co/BHTRcmlYXP