SO much on point, thanks for pushing back Zoltan! www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

Is your funding for hematology research "Between a rock and a hard place" #fightforhematology funds from ASH members and fans now provide a new program: A R C H hematology.org/awards/caree... NOTE: Are you doing well? .....your donations go 100% to lab support in the ARCH program.

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

No more calling them ICE. Time to call them Trump’s Death Squads.

I just withdrew my application for the NIGMS Director position....

From A1 percentile 10th to A0 ND…🤯

Here is the curve for new and competitive renewal (Type 1 and Type 2) awards. This reveals that only very few (42) new and competitive renewal awards have been made thus far in fiscal year 2026. This compares with more than 1200 through the same date in previous fiscal years. 3/6

How am I supposed to live in the same country with people who believe or say such things, or with people who choose such representatives? Fundamentally incompatible. This faction of US politics has to be defeated and has to face justice for its actions.

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me. I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!

New @science.org today Discovery of a genomic variant that protects against blood cancer by reducing risk of CHIP (blood stem cell mutation clones, common with aging) @bloodgenes.bsky.social @kharaslab.bsky.social science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

Which amino acid is most required for T cell leukemia? Did you guess...histidine? excited to see this out, congrats to Komal and @herranzlab.bsky.social and coauthors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A dietary pan-amino acid dropout screen in vivo reveals a critical role for histidine in T-ALL https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.21.694897v1

🚨 📣 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨📣 Probably, our most exciting discovery yet!! We performed the first-ever dietary pan-amino acid dropout screen in cancer in vivo using T-ALL as a model, and surprisingly found histidine as critically needed for T-ALL progression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This about sums it up, folks. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Illegally terminated

Thrilled to be one of this year's @bepositivefdn.bsky.social grant recipients! Thank you so much for your support! www.bepositive.org/research-ove...

📢Interested in #CancerMetabolism and #leukemia using mouse models in vivo? Come join us!! We're looking for a #postdoc to help us drive one of our multiple currently funded projects! Friends & colleagues, please RT! 👇👇👇 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/262...

Petition for a NY Biomedical Institute. This is a no-brainer to support science in NY, similar to programs in CA/TX. www.change.org/p/support-a-...

A big advance, folks, for off-the-shelf, universal, engineered (base-edited) T cells achieving complete response vs incurable leukemia in several patients www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

📣🚨📣 NEW PAPER ALERT!! Did you ever struggle to differentiate very similar populations in #scRNA? Struggle no more with CANTAO! Really enjoyable collaboration between our lab and the Khiabanian lab @rutgerscancer.bsky.social!! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

UNF*UCKINGBELIEVABLE!! These morons…. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

He is such a danger to our public health!! Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?

Excited to share our new study, led by @dellaVolpe_L, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com! Blocking #ferroptosis enhances human 🩸 stem cell expansion, with implications for transplantation and gene therapy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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NEW: Trump pardons the husband of GOP Rep. Diana Harshbarger. Bob Harshbarger pleaded guilty to fraud & distributing kidney drugs from China that weren't FDA approved. His wife was an officer in the company, but claimed she wasn't involved. The WH says the pardon was not related to his last name

1/New paper from Zheng Wu, Phong Nguyen et al. @cri-utsw.bsky.social shows how cells balance the two pathways that produce purine nucleotides: de novo purine biosynthesis (DNPB) and purine salvage. The surprising mechanism involves NUDT5, a Nudix hydrolase www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Always a pleasure collaborating with the Jones Lab. Awesome science and even better people!

Ecstatic to share out latest research looking at the role of mitochondrial ABHD11 in controlling T-cell responses. We think this may be a viable target for autoimmunity. Please do give it a read, we would love to hear your thoughts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢Interested in #CancerMetabolism and #leukemia using mouse models in vivo? Come join us!! We're looking for a #postdoc to help us drive one of our multiple currently funded projects! Friends & colleagues, please RT! 👇👇👇 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Studies of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia reveal that canagliflozin possesses potent anti-leukaemic effects underpinned by proliferative defects, cell cycle disruption and apoptosis, actions synergized by restriction of serine and glycine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is terrible. A brief statement from us: Congress must stop it. We call for a provision in any CR/budget bill that explicitly declares these Vought shutdown firings to be illegal, null, and void.

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This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...

Reprogramming neuroblastoma by diet-enhanced polyamine depletion www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epigenetic diagnosis of acute leukemia within two hours from sample receipt 🚀 Very happy to share the results of a great collaboration between @hovestadt.bsky.social and Griffin Labs, I co-led with @sbenfatto.bsky.social, published today in @natgenet.nature.com 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/n

Today, the New York Times published a long essay glorifying Jay Bhattacharya, the Trump NIH director. What?⁉️ Here’s the explanation: That essay was written by the editor of a Trumpist Republican journal, funded by a Trumpist org that hates science. SHAME on the Times. 🧪1/

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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Had tons of fun visiting the University of Zurich Children’s Hospital and discussing our science with new and old friends @ninacabezas.bsky.social Thanks so much for the invitation #MorscherLab

Closing this chapter at @herranzlab.bsky.social! Thanks for all the science, laughs and memories! Miss you already!