Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا
@jacob_hanna
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Palestinian Stem Cell Scientist, #Arab&BlackLivesMatter #PeaceNOW #FreeGaza #FreePalestine ! personal account
Joined May 2010
Very honored & excited for this partnership with @yzilabs that will help advance Hanna lab based embryo-like developmental model platforms, being developed by #RenewalBio, for a plethora of biomedical applications & reaching fundamental understanding of human organ development.
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MIT Technology Review article by Antonio Regalado about our research on human embryo models in this day and age. I didn't agree to interview for this because what i find often as over-sensational writing style (as in tweet below) & i disagree with several things and
The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna. For the "Body Issue" of MIT Technology review, we took a deep dive into the world of synthetic embryos, cell-printers, headless clones, and artificial wombs. Link in reply.
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A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!! ..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!
“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview
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Last day of intense science discussions and presentations at the HFSP Science Summit Japan was held in Kyoto university. It has been an amazing 5 days of listening to great scientists from Japan and all over the world. An unforgettable visit.
The #HFSPSummitJapan wrapped up today in Kyoto 🌸 ✨ Nobel Laureates & Nakasone Awardees shared insights with young researchers 🧬 Svante Pääbo took us back to our evolutionary roots 👩🔬 A lively poster session closed the day What a beautiful journey!
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Thanks to Leqian Yu and co. (twitter-less) and @CellStemCell for commenting on recent work, including ours, on transgene free mouse high fidelity post gastrulation SEMs
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Two recent studies from the Silva and Hanna groups optimized chemical induction and culture conditions to derive extraembryonic lineages directly from embryonic stem cells (ESCs) without transgenes,...
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Another great day in Japan science summit with Intriguing science and science policy discussions at University of Tokyo.
Today is the big day! We’ve kicked off the High-Level Event of the #HFSPSummitJapan at The University of Tokyo 🎉 🌍✨
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Finally .. incredible much awaited wok on deriving avian naive ESCs “Derivation of embryonic stem cells across avian species” https://t.co/aDMKPB6ORv
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Nature Biotechnology - Embryonic stem cells for chicken and seven other avian species are derived.
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This was great fun!
🧪 The HFSP Science Summit Japan has officially kicked off today at Tohoku University in Sendai! An inspiring start with outstanding researchers & young scientists reflecting on collaboration and innovation in life sciences. 🌍✨ #sts #HFSPSummitJapan
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EEE meeting is BACK! Early Embryogenesis & Epigenetics conference in Berlin 02/2026. Checkout great program and over 12 slots for (not so) short talks for submitted abstracts!. Early registration now open - https://t.co/XZIEGUV11v
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THANK YOU for many years of friendship, support and for sharing your great Science. La Pedrera #Barcelona
#NotInTheGenes #CellsRUs #Cambridge
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Greatly enjoyed writing this commentary about spectacular paper from Sharad Ramanathan Group on organoids based modeling of human neural tube closure in @eLife Morphogenesis: Regulating closure of the neural tube in humans
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An organoid-based screening platform that allows one-gene-at-a-time knockdown across a whole tissue has been used to identify the genes that regulate closure of the neural tube in humans.
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Dear tweeps - does anyone have great experience with an alternative to the good old radioactive based labeling and membrane blotting for Souther Blot?
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🚨 New preprint! Generative modeling comes to cytometry. Meet CytoVI — a deep generative model from the @YosefLab & @IdoAmitLab for antibody-based single-cell technologies (flow, mass cytometry, CITE-seq). https://t.co/Yo0uP140V7 🧵👇
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Important work on TSC from human primed and naive PSC at greater depth! Trophoblast stem cell derivation from naive and primed hPSC enables ELF5 functional analysis: Stem Cell Reports
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In this article, Sokka et al. show that naive and primed hPSCs give rise to TSC-like cells with transcriptomic similarity to reference TSC, but with key differences. TSCn expressed C19MC and differ...
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"#Gaza is a graveyard." Speaking at the @UN Human Rights Council, @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk said he was "horrified by the open use of genocidal rhetoric, and the disgraceful dehumanization of Palestinians by senior Israeli officials." #HRC60
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Stunning and thorough review by @vlad_bndk and colleagues, that finally presents new and visionary concepts...
📣 It is my pleasure to announce our recent review with Margherita on the current approaches, challenges, and perspectives of studying human maternal-fetal interface using in vitro models! 🚀✨️
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This is a very fitting way to commemorate the great impact & persona of Prof. Michael Sela, a legendary scientist & President of Weizmann Institute. Congrats to this year's awardees that bring great honor to this newly founded award: Eric Lander, Leroy Hood and Francis Collins.
We’re proud to launch the Michael Sela Prize in Biomedical Sciences! Read more about the new international prize and the 2025 laureates >> https://t.co/szWRTebEtI
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Interesting work on another way to stabilize transgene free OCT4+CDX2+ mouse naive PSCs capable of generating post-gastrulation ~E8.5 mouse SEMs in @CellResearch1 . WNT hyper-activation seems to be a common denominator between this & other recent papers. https://t.co/DcjSfi7HNc
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