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🧬🪱 CRISPR is great to edit C. elegans, but sorting through thousands of candidates is tedious, and accumulating multiple edits can get messy. Drs. Craig Hunter, Alix Weisman, & Nicole Fisher at @MCB_Harvard have a neat trick to simplify both challenges:
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🧬 The 7th Gene Therapy Analytical Development Summit is happening October 21–23 in Boston!. Learn from industry leaders as they share insights on assay validation, long-read sequencing, digital PCR, and more. 🔗 Don’t miss it:
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RT @WhiteheadInst: LOCL-TL allows researchers to study which proteins are being made, or translated, at specific locations within the cell.….
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Jonathan Weissman and colleagues developed an optogenetic approach to study where in the cell proteins get made and used it to characterize two groups of proteins produced next to mitochondria. This...
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Research from @harvardmed have uncovered a previously unknown role of TRPV1 vagal nociceptors: battling the flu. 🐭 New evidence in mice models shows their ability to reign in the #ImmuneSystem, preventing excessive inflammation:
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The Gates Foundation is funding two labs at @UMassChan for research aimed at improving pregnancy outcomes and gut health in women from low- and middle-income countries. 👏 Congratulations to the Maldonado-Contreras and @BucciVanni labs!
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Extra, extra! Read the latest @MIT AI news. 📰. 💉 AI designs nanoparticles for RNA vaccine delivery: 🧫 AI & novel designs for MRSA antibiotics: 💊 Facilitating drug synthesis via solubility predictions:
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RT @HHMINEWS: Please join us in congratulating HHMI Investigators Jennifer Doudna and David R. Liu (@davidrliu), recipients of national awa….
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In a discovery that could expand current cancer immunotherapy treatments, Drs. Martin LaFleur & Arlene Sharpe (@harvardmed) have identified a molecular brake that hinders the ability of T cells to attack tumors. 📰: 🔬 @NatImmunol:
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RT @NatureCancer: 🚨 New article alert! 🚨 Check out our last release by @IrenemGhobrial and colleagues on "SWIFT-seq enables comprehensive s….
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Nature Cancer - Lightbody et al. present SWIFT-seq, a single-cell RNA sequencing approach to profile circulating tumor cells from patients with multiple myeloma and its precursor conditions and...
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🔬 By combining several cutting-edge imaging technologies, a new microscope system developed at @MIT_Picower could enable unprecedentedly deep and precise visualization of metabolic and neuronal activity. Find out about all the nanoscale details:
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RT @kochinstitute: Congrats to Dr. Alice T. Shaw—the KI’s inaugural Clinical Investigator—on being named Chair of Medical Oncology at @Dana….
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RT @WhiteheadInst: What is the microbiome, and what role does it play in health and disease? This fun cartoon explainer, featuring Valhalla….
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Drs. @IrenemGhobrial, @RomanosSP, and Elizabeth Lightbody at @DanaFarber have developed a blood test that could transform the diagnosis and monitoring of #MultipleMyeloma and its precursor conditions. Press release: @NatureCancer:
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RT @ragoninstitute: Ragon Institute scientists investigate how immunity works—and fails—across diseases like HIV, TB, COVID-19, cancer, and….
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RT @kochinstitute: Congrats to Sourav Ghosh (@souravSGW) of IIT Bombay (@BsbeIitb).& Kotaro Tomuro (@KTomuro) of @RIKEN/@UTokyo_News_en - o….
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Postdoctoral fellow Dr. @TaraCDelorme at @UMassChan has received a prestigious award from the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé. 🧠 Dr. Delorme is investigating advanced sequencing techniques to study individual cell types in the brain. Congratulations!
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RT @ragoninstitute: Congratulations to Ragon Early Independence Fellow @immunoliugy who was spotlighted in the @JExpMed Women in STEM featu….
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RT @WhiteheadInst: Pictured here, the parasite Toxoplasma gondii undergoes cell division. Micronemes, packages of molecules that allow the….
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