Björn Högberg
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Biophysicist, Professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm Sweden.
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Timothy Snyder
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On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...
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Bloodlands
From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killi...
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timothy-snyder/bloodlands/9780465032976/
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Marian Walhout
7 months ago
A must read for any (systems) biologist!
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
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Should biology put complexity first?
The dictum “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” poses a problem for biology. How simply can it be told without doing damage to its complex nature? The answer might be foun...
https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712(25)00030-4
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A couple of weeks left to apply!
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Cutting of air defense ammunition to Ukraine at this point is pure betrayal by the US. A stab in the back.
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Philip Ball
3 months ago
Now I've looked more closely at these two recent papers in Nature, and they are both excellent examples of why we need new narratives for talking about molecular biology to non-specialists. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deciphering disordered regions controlling mRNA decay in high-throughput - Nature
Using high-throughput functional profiling, how disordered regions control mRNA stability and translation is explored.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08919-x
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Elena Spezzani
3 months ago
It’s out! 🚨 📣 Excited to see that this collab led to my first paper as one of the first authors—now published in Small
@wiley.com
👩🔬 In this study, we explored the binding dynamics of DNA origamis with the cell surface at the single-particle level. Check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/smll...
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Real‐Time Monitoring of DNA Origami‐Cell Interactions via Single Particle Tracking
This study utilizes single particle tracking (SPT) to capture real-time interactions between DNA origami nanorods (NRs) and cell surfaces. Functionalized NRs targeting EGFR-expressing cells exhibit s...
https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202502496
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Karolinska Institutet
3 months ago
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions:
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Come join our department at the Karolinska Institute!
ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Assistant Professor in Biomedical Science
Join a global community of excellence Are you a bold, creative researcher ready to shape the future of medical science? Karolinska Institutet (KI), one of the world’s foremost medical universities,
https://ki.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:839971/
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Come and start your lab at Karolinska Institutet!
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Anonymous
4 months ago
What’s Kerch bridge doing? 🙂
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Tamsin Lindström
4 months ago
Full house at the Nobel Forum as
@kragesteen-lab.bsky.social
kicks off MBB’s new lecture series celebrating 1982 Nobel Prize winners Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson. And
@itaiyanai.bsky.social
’s inaugural keynote lecture was as inspiring and entertaining as you’d expect! 🤩
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This is exactly what is on the table.
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#FNANO
in Snowbird a gem among conferences. I went here for the first time as a PhD student in 2005. This year two of my students, Iris and Igor, gave presentations.
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Timothy Snyder
5 months ago
Trump pleads with his war criminal patron "Vladimir" over social media not to make him look too stupid as Trump gives everything to Russia and justifies past murder and enables future murder. And Putin laughs at him.
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Adam Kinzinger
5 months ago
Trump’s Russia “deal” makes Neville Chamberlain look like Churchill
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And Trump is upset with Zelensky...
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Luca Jovine
5 months ago
Fresh off the press in
@pnas.org
: functional and structural studies of the interaction between
#fertilization-blocking
mAb IE-3 and mammalian
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coat protein
#ZP2
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thanks to
@vetenskapsradet.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu
@embo.org
@kawresearch.bsky.social
@dfg.de
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Structural basis of ZP2-targeted female nonhormonal contraception | PNAS
Monoclonal antibody IE-3 prevents mouse fertilization by binding ZP2, a major component of the oocyte-specific zona pellucida (ZP). We show that an...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2426057122
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Ruzzia bombing civilizans. Scum.
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NOELREPORTS
5 months ago
34 dead and 117 injured and this is what U.S. Secretary of State Rubio comes up with on the Russian missile strike in Sumy: "A tragic reminder of why President Trump has pushed to end this war." No Marco, it is a tragic reminder of how ineffective your administration is in 'resolving' this war.
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Olena Halushka
6 months ago
3yo Tymofiy 7yo Radyslav 7yo Arina 9yo Herman 15yo Danylo 15yo Mykyta 15yo Alina 16yo Kostiantyn 17yo Nikita President Zelenskyi published the names of kids, innocent victims of the russian terror attack against Kryvyi Rih residential district yesterday. Never forgive. Never forget.
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Emma R Andersson
6 months ago
Hot off the press! 🧬🔬 We developed in utero nano-injection to label & trace the mouse neural plate and otic placode using next generation single cell lineage tracing. We couple progenitors to mature cell types in the CNS & resolve the lineages of cells in the hearing organ:
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Ectoderm barcoding reveals neural and cochlear compartmentalization
Placodes and the neural crest are defining features of vertebrates. In this study, we investigate their lineages in mice using in utero approaches. We demonstrated that nanoinjection at embryonic day ...
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq9248
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Elbows up Heard and McDonald Islands. You'll show them!
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Dr Alex Cruikshanks
6 months ago
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
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Sten Linnarsson
6 months ago
Are you an established (”distinguished”) researcher outside Europe? Thinking of moving here for some reason? Grant opportunity just dropped:
www.vr.se/english/appl...
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Grant for recruiting international visiting researcher to Sweden
The purpose of the grant is to provide higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting a distinguished researche...
https://www.vr.se/english/applying-for-funding/calls/2025-04-01-grant-for-recruiting-international-visiting-researcher-to-sweden.html
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Excellent.
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Thomas Hansen
6 months ago
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht:
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If this is true, it is evil.
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Joshua Weinstein
6 months ago
Delighted to share our new paper on 3D imaging of an intact organism via a distributed molecular network, now out in Nature Biotechnology:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial transcriptomic imaging of an intact organism using volumetric DNA microscopy - Nature Biotechnology
Volumetric DNA microscopy captures spatial information of RNA within an intact organism.
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💀 Dawn of the Molly (Doomkick Edition)💀
6 months ago
Anonymous has it right. They are talking about making Europe pay for decisions it may or may not be part of making. They are bashing Europe. If any country was questioning, whether or not they could still be allies with us, they aren’t now.
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Molpigs
6 months ago
For week three of our 🧬DNA origami🧬 reading group we're reading the first of two 2009 papers from the Shih lab which demonstrated that you really could fold DNA into any 3D shape! This paper also demonstrated Cadnano, which remains the most used design software today.
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
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Molpigs
6 months ago
The second meeting of the Origami Reading Group is tonight at 18:00 EST! Come discuss the original DNA Origami with us (spoiler, it’s shockingly sassy). 🧬
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Remarkable! Please stop.
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Richard Branson
7 months ago
(2/3) The UK government is doing its best to live up to this commitment, but the US is effectively siding with Russia in undermining it. Instead of seeing its sovereignty preserved, Ukraine is being pressured to accept a lopsided peace agreement without real guarantees.
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Eric Topol
6 months ago
Some input at the 5-year mark of Covid
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Krassensteins
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
6 months ago
In a nutshell.
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NOELREPORTS
6 months ago
🇸🇪🇺🇦 Swedish company SAAB AB and Ukrainian Radionix have signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation in the field of sensors and defense electronics, according to SAAB's press service.
www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...
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Saab and Radionix sign MoU for sensors and defence electronics
Saab and the Ukrainian defence company Radionix have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the intention to form a strategic collaboration relating to sensors and defence electronics, a...
https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/saab-and-radionix-sign-mou-for-sensors-and-defence-electronics
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Darth Putin
7 months ago
By resisting the hackers, Elon is just prolonging the attack.
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Emma R Andersson
8 months ago
🚨 PhD Opportunity in Single-Cell Lineage Tracing! 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our ERC-funded project, combining in utero nano-injection, spatial transcriptomics, & single-cell RNAseq to reconstruct lineage trees & uncover fate dynamics. Apply here:
bit.ly/4aEfcvE
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Doctoral (PhD) student position in Developmental Biology with in utero next generation single cell lineage tracing
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? To be a doctoral student means to devote oneself to a research project under supervision of experienced researchers and following an individu
https://kidoktorand.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:791430/
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Darth Putin
7 months ago
Russia is a peaceful country, surrounded by ceasefires.
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Hans Zelf 🇪🇺🇺🇦
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Molpigs
7 months ago
Excited to start our 🧬DNA origami🧬 reading group next week! We’ll be hosting two weekly sessions: Tuesday @ 20:15 CET Thursday @ 18 EST You can still sign up by joining the reading-group channel on Slack or filling the form for email updates! Timezone converter:
molpi.gs/timezones#tz...
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Anonymous
7 months ago
So this was a campaign promise not an observation.
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Anton Gerashchenko
7 months ago
I decided to share some Ukrainian wartime humor with you. A stand-up: Every time Ukraine is "buried", then everyone is surprised to find out that we not only survived but keep fighting. 📹: Anton Tymoshenko
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NOELREPORTS
7 months ago
🇬🇧🇺🇦 British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles are now ineffective in Ukraine after Trump blocked US intelligence sharing with allies, dealing a blow to Ukraine's offensive capabilities. This follows the heated Oval Office clash between Trump and Zelensky.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Storm Shadow missiles useless in Ukraine after US cut intelligence
In a huge blow to Ukraine's ability to defend itself against Russia's invasion, Trump froze all American military aid to Kyiv before suspending intelligence sharing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14467869/British-supplied-Storm-Shadow-missiles-useless-Ukraine-President-Trump-blocked-US-intelligence-sharing-allies.html
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Anonymous
7 months ago
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor"
#3E
#EndOligarchy
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Tori Herridge
7 months ago
Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n
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2022: Russia thinks Ukraine will surrender in 3 days. 2025: The USA thinks Ukraine will surrender in 3 days.
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Friedrich Simmel
7 months ago
2 PhD positions in Molecular Machines for EU researchers in the framework of the EU MSCA "MONALISA" are available at TUM from autumn 2025: i) Autonomous Brownian Rotors Based on DNA Origami ii) Controlling enzymatic reactions with DNA machines Email:
[email protected]
"MONALISA" in the reference
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The arsenal of democracy is closed. We need to stop buying American weapons as soon as possible.
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