Rio Hermantara
@riohermantara
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Dad, husband, son, brother; PhD in Cancer Sciences/CRISPR-gene editing @UofGlasgow HoD of Biomedicine study program, i3L, Jakarta
Yogyakarta-Glasgow
Joined December 2010
I need a break from writing and I need a detox from all this Covid tweets (which always fascinates and distracts my attention).. so let me do a little #CRISPRthread on #CRISPR #Cas9 #genomeediting GEMININ EDITION
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Beyond delighted to share our latest work from @theglasgowcemi @DalbyMatthew @ManuelMime, published yesterday in @NatureComms. Here we bioengineer a model of the bone marrow niche microenvironment that can maintain long-term HSCs 🦴🩸 https://t.co/HMO4oAodKx
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Nature Communications - The ability to maintain blood stem cells (HSCs) in vitro would allow us to provide better therapies for blood diseases. Here, the authors report that polymer-organised...
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Having time off to finally write my (overdue) manuscript and to read The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Murkherjee. Really miss those 'eureka' momments in the lab..
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Clear. Substantive. Accessible. Vetted by CRISPR professionals @igisci @UCBerkeley. 👏 @thecrispress @hoperhenderson @Andy_Murdock
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Incorporating peer assessment in group settings is exhausting.. Especially if you have 31 groups (4-6 students/group) to grade in 2 weeks.
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BREAKING NEWS: With Wano concluding, One Piece will be going on a 1 month hiatus from June 27th to July 25th so that Oda can prepare for the final saga
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I'm having sooo much fun in preparing this (Introduction to) Quantitative genetics class. I just wish all other faculty duties were as fun..
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Enjoyed this great NYT article on APOL1, its association with kidney disease in African Americans and the related drug development efforts. It's story telling time. Let's dive into the story of APOL1 from discovery to therapeutics. 🧵 https://t.co/jj8iTAjQ4N
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New treatments aim for a gene variant causing the illness in people of sub-Saharan African descent. Some experts worry that focus will neglect other factors.
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News and twitter today is so heartbreaking and depressing.. #PrayersForUvalde
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Her story is inspiring!
This picture is worth a thousand words! 🙏 Emily Whitehead 10 years on and celebrating a cure #CARTCell #tcellrx #immunotherapy #celltherapy #genetherapy @ChildrensPhila @PennMedicine @PennCancer @EWhiteheadFdn
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Prime editing is amazing! Looking forward in getting my hands on this awesome new tech..
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Incredibly excited to share our paper ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’ now published @nature. https://t.co/a68IkkTt33 An illustrated & updated tweetorial… [1/24]
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Framed and titled as: "In every mistake there is HOPE"
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This panel in the latest #ONEPIECE1047 got me as hard as Going Merry 😭 Good thing I didn't read this chapter in the office..
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Well this was an experience. 33 floor dash was also something that one might not forget 😮💨 Thankfully no one got hurt. https://t.co/y3YDKNVCkl
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