World-first placenta-derived stem-cell therapy applied to fetal spinal cords in six pregnant women shows promise for treating spina bifida in the womb www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ucdavishealth.bsky.social

Great epigenomics and chromatin meeting come up in the Bay Area. Check it out!

A remarkable scientific hero who worked in my home town. We never knew her secret powers.

Please repost and share widely - winter break is a perfect time to assemble application materials 😅

An excellent article in the Times about the threats to young US scientists, our investments, and economy www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

As #DisabledInSTEM, I benefitted from the NSF GRFP as I entered graduate school knowing I would have funding. As someone with a disability, it can be difficult to find a lab and a PI who is willing to spend so much money on you. With my own funding, came independence. #StandUpForScience2025

UPDATE: Black women died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women at childbirth in 2023, and we can expect this to get much worse under Trump with RFK Jr running HHS. This is a brutal, systemic failure. Wake up, America!

Shoutout to the axolotls and amazing PREP scholar Christian Torres from the lab of @rogerslabucd.bsky.social showcased on the website

How DID this happen?

I first learned about the Silvis Lab's work on homes and the WUI from this NYT article (gift link) 1990: 10 M homes in the Western US in the WUI 2020: 16 M CA alone has 5.1 M homes in the WUI www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

Hi all. I’d like to share our review article that links environmental factors and DNA methylation in ASD across different geographic regions, with global and country-specific prevalence data that outlines the factors influencing ASD diagnoses by region and year. academic.oup.com/eep/article/...

I wrote some thoughts about why peer review matters It shapes scientific standards, maintains field coherence & trains new researchers Yes, it needs improvement—but it's the glue that holds scientific progress together briscoelab.org/2024/12/11/i...

www.ft.com/womenof2024 I enjoyed this collection of inspirational and influential women's stories

On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war. For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1