
David Pérez-Morga
@PMorgaDavid
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Microbiologist with a trypanosome bias, cell biologist with Electron_Microscopy culture, single father, teacher under Feynman's spell & a childish look at art.
Belgium
Joined December 2011
On this day in 1975, amidst unexpected challenges, Keith Jarrett released what would become a jazz masterpiece... But what made this album so legendary? Here's the story behind "The Köln Concert" A thread🧵
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Tour-de-force by @Jonatha31791089 enabling visualization of protein folding within cells by cryo-ET. Great collaboration with @MPI_Biochem colleagues, just out @Nature
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Exciting times! A big paper I was involved in has dropped @NatureMicrobiol. 100 cases of phage therapy facilitated by a Belgian consortium showing 77.2% clinical improvement. I will go through the results below put please read 👇 https://t.co/bZp80KtBvQ
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Nature Microbiology - Analysis of 100 consecutive personalized bacteriophage therapy cases supports the use of personalized and sometimes pre-adapted, bacteriophage preparations, often in...
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What was lost when the Library of Alexandria burned? Well — our entire knowledge of the Greco-Roman world comes from about 500 volumes. 700,000 scrolls were potentially lost at Alexandria alone. Here's what was in there... (thread) 🧵
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Mexico's first female president breaks political glass ceiling
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Given Mexico’s deeply ingrained patriarchy and entrenched machismo, Claudia Sheinbaum's victory is no small feat.
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"When I draw a molecule in China or in Argentina, it is the same molecule. People understand immediately without knowing Spanish or Chinese. That is beautiful. Our common goal is not about power or borders of the country, it is about bringing forward human knowledge." Ben Feringa
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¿Sabías que? El sistema de la sonda Voyager es uno de los más sofisticados, jamás diseñados. Un ejemplo, la resolución de sus cámaras son lo suficientemente nítidas para leer el titular de un periódico a una distancia de 1 km. 🤯🛰️
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Chemistry laureate Roger Kornberg's scientific contributions include determining the structure of the enzyme active in DNA transcription. His father Arthur Kornberg was awarded the 1959 medicine prize – genes clearly run in the family.
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“Se había perdido el contacto con la sonda Voyager 1, que partió de la Tierra hace 46 años y que ahora está a más de 24 mil millones de kilómetros de nosotros, después de abandonar el sistema solar. ¿Y qué creen? Acaban de volver a entrar en contacto con la sonda”. Hilo en
On avait perdu le contact avec la sonde Voyager 1, partie de la Terre il y a 46 ans et qui vogue maintenant à plus de 24 milliards de kilomètre de nous, après avoir quitté le système solaire. On vient de re-rentrer en contact avec la sonde. Thread en images👇
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Une chercheuse de la VUB dévoile les secrets d’une grotte datant du début du Paléolithique supérieur, à une époque où les Néandertaliens et les premiers Homo sapiens cohabitaient. https://t.co/grp1S6p2IN
press.vub.ac.be
Mughr el-Hamamah, qui signifie « la grotte aux pigeons » en arabe, est un site situé dans le nord-ouest de la Jordanie, connu pour les découvertes...
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📣 Résultats de l'appel WELBIO Investigator Programme 2023 ➡ La liste des candidatures retenues est sur notre site : https://t.co/UtFbsLBNnQ
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Very honored to be elected as a new Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Thank you very much for those who supported my nomination and for the past and present members of my lab.
amacad.org
Elected in 2025
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What's the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas ? Previously, researchers thought that humans arrived in North America 13,000 years ago, but now they're finding much older evidence. Based on stone artifacts dating to about 13,000 years ago, archaeologists for most of
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👏👏👏 Félicitations à Sabine Costagliola, Directrice de recherches @frsFNRS et Directrice de l'IRIBHM de l'@ULBruxelles, qui se voit décerner le prestigieux #PrixGeneret2023 pour les maladies rares ! @FRB_KBS
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👏 Un million d'euros pour la recherche sur les pathologies thyroïdiennes rares. Le Prof. Dr. Sabine Costagliola, Directrice de recherches F.R.S. - FNRS et Directrice de l’IRIBHM (Université libre de Bruxelles) a reçu ce vendredi le Prix Generet 2023 pour les Maladies Rares.
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Words of wisdom from pioneering neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini. Levi-Montalcini was 103 years old when she passed away in 2012 - the longest-living Nobel Prize laureate ever. This clip is from an interview when she was 99 years old: https://t.co/wh301KxY3f
#IWD #IWD2024
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Congratulations, so well deserved!!
👏 Félicitations à @LaureElens @UCLouvain_be et Benoit Vanhollebeke @ULBruxelles, lauréats du Prix Lambertine Lacroix 2024 pour leurs recherches en cardiologie ! ➕ Découvrez leur projet de recherche et leur réaction sur notre site : https://t.co/v21vLL865Y
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Meet Simone Heber, a recent postdoc in the Ephrussi Group at EMBL. Simone not only developed a method to study oskar RNA transport in vitro, using it to derive new biological insights, but also participated in the 2023 Ironman World Championship. https://t.co/PmgnriaJq8
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