4/4 abstracts accepted, @eutermis.bsky.social here we come!

✨Bring on the good fortune✨ This #PhallusThursday we celebrate with this tuff stele from Pompeii that depicts a large phallus inside a temple. If you ever wondered if the Romans attributed divine power to the phallus, wonder no more! #AncientRome

Want to know more about urethral diseases and how biofabrication may generate solutions for patients? Check out post below!

Fresh paper! www.jpedsurg.org/article/S002...

It was a true pleasure to host this meeting.

Talk about an in-flight meal. For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

Sigh. We're gonna need a bigger story...

Proud to host the @strong-ur.bsky.social consortium in our institute, stay tuned for more cool pictures

Targeting ECM-producing cells with CAR-T therapy alleviates fibrosis in chronic kidney disease

Great paper from our institute, congrats @riclevato.bsky.social and team #biofabrication #3Dprinting #regenerativemedicine

🔎 Urethral strictures can vary significantly in severity, and understanding this, is key to improving diagnosis and treatment. Read all about it in the @uroweb.org ’s Urethral Strictures Guidelines classifying strictures 👉 uroweb.org/guidelines/u... #Urology #MedicalResearch #EUscience

Fresh paper! Thanks to @erneurogen.bsky.social for funding the meeting and ofcourse all the co-authors. www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Fresh publication, check out our news and views article in Nature Biomedical Engineering First manuscript (of many I hope) with @isabellemartinier.bsky.social #biofabrication #diseasemodeling #peniledisease #urology rdcu.be/erlM6

Happy Cucumber Day 🥒🎉 Cucumbers (and other things 😉) come in all shapes and sizes. Big ones, small ones, straight ones, curved ones. Because just like cucumbers, condoms also come in all shapes and sizes. #safesexysummer #cucumber #condoms #cukes #pickles #STIprevention

This review is from @isabellemartinier.bsky.social, @fm-fernandes.bsky.social and Léa Trichet: 'Biomimetic tubular materials: from native tissues to a unifying view of new vascular, tracheal, gastrointestinal, oesophageal, and urinary grafts' pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Check out the RMU Symposium in Tivoli Vredenburg on June 30th! Registration is open for all those interested in Regenerative Medicine We celebrate our 10 year anniversary with key note lectures, workshops, posters, and more! Get a sneak peak of our program below. www.uu.nl/en/research/...

🚨 Join the upcoming @erneurogen.bsky.social webinar about the latest evidence on tissue engineering in the urinary tract. 🗓️ 28 May 🕙 18-19h 📍 Online Our project will be presented as an example of ongoing research in this field! 👉 All info: shorturl.at/M1pCd #TissueEngineering #EUproject

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals. Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD

Don’t forget penis cancer! Have your sons vaccinated too #GetVaccinated

TERMIS-EU 2025 is coming to Freiburg! 🇩🇪 Join hosts Bernd Rolauffs, Melanie Hart, Günther Schlunck & Thorsten Steinberg, May 20–23. Workshops, cross-disciplinary science & big ideas. #TermisEU2025 #TissueEngineering #RegenerativeMedicine

Proud of my colleague in @strong-ur.bsky.social Prof. Sandra van Vlierberghe received her @eutermis.bsky.social Mid Term Career Award #TERMISEU2025

These are the striking winners of our 2025 Scientist At Work photo competition, taking viewers on a voyage of discovery that includes the Arctic and Antarctic circles, and a shot from atop a Greek mountain. Read the full stories of these images: https://go.nature.com/4dqQK2s

🚨 Bladder Cancer: The Forgotten Cancer This May, let's unite to shift the narrative around bladder cancer. It’s time to elevate awareness, recognise the early symptoms, and dismantle the barriers preventing individuals from seeking the medical advice they need.

"Dolphins call each other’s signature whistles if they get separated. Once, we played one of those whistles while the pair was still together. They responded with a totally different whistle. We call it the 'WTF whistle,' because it really did seem like that’s what they were asking." @science.org

Give it up for these hard working entertainers on Labour Day! #PhallusThursday

🧬 This short video offers a clear and insightful look at how 3D bioprinting works, a key technology driving innovation in regenerative medicine! 📺 Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHbn... #3Dprinting #Biotechnology

It's Testicular Cancer Awareness Month 🐿️ 🥜 🌰 Self-exams are important to familiarize yourself with what is normal for you. If you notice any changes or something feels off, take action & see a doctor. #KnowThyNuts #TCisNoJoke #TesticularCancerAwarenessMonth #nuts #cancer @tcsociety.bsky.social

Great talk with beautiful microscopy pictures yesterday of PhD student Xiaohe #regenativemedicine #TEforUrethroplasty

🚨 TONIGHT! Join an ERN eUROGEN webinar: 🖥 Proximal Hypospadias with a Short Urethral Plate 👥 Radim Kočvara, Josef Sedláček, and Marcel Drlík 📅 Wednesday 2 April, 18:00 CET 🔗 bit.ly/eUROGEN02Apr25 #EUfunded #HealthUnion #EU4Health #RareDisease #UroSoMe #Urology #PedUro #SoMe4PedSurg #Hypospadias

[Review] Assembly and Dynamics of Transcription Initiation Complexes in @annualreviews.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Our team, proud to be part of this #urology #regenerativemedicine

Biologists have built one of the most detailed pictures of pregnancy's true toll on the body. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/4iKaWxZ

To all chromatin and RNA enthusiasts 🧬 🧬 🧬 Our lab 3d-chrom.iit.it has several openings! Looking for a well-paid position in a stimulating environment? Apply here 👇 Senior Bioinformatician iit.taleo.net/careersectio... Senior Molecular Biology Researcher iit.taleo.net/careersectio...

"Why don't you buy a new centrifuge" Because everyone knows that any appliances in that shade of yellow will outlive you and your entire family, look at it

idk but this condom tutorial seems to be setting some unrealistic standards

I never thought I could be here today, still in science, leading a group, in the center of regenerative urology #LongCovidAwarenessDay #LongCovid #PACS

It wasn’t just the Romans who were keen on the symbolism of the phallus, here the Egyptian god Osiris reveals maybe more than anyone was expecting! #PhallusThursday #AncientBluesky🏺

When tasteful sophrosyne is not your thing. #PhallusThursday

For #PhallusThursday, a Roman tintinnabulum - an apotropaic wind chime - in the form of a gladiator battling his own beastly phallus (a commentary on men, I’m sure). The phallus served to ward off the evil eye, while the bells frightened away evil spirits. 🏺 1st c. BCE, Herculaneum. #MANN 📸 me

Proud of our new paper! We describe an in vitro urethra, this can be the start of an animal free disease model. It is open access so check the link #urology #regenerativemedicine #publishorperish www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Here is an E10.5 transgenic mouse embryo showing expression of my favorite gene, Sonic Hedgehog, in blue! Microscopy by former lab #DevBio researcher Tina Zhang 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔬

A new scientific chapter begins! Thrilled to announce that I’ve started a Postdoc at Regenerative Med. Utrecht, Urology, under the supervision of @petradegraaf.bsky.social. My research will focus on studying urethral tissues and developing new bioprinted materials. Pumped for the adventure ahead!🧫🍆

More news! #phallusthursday www.linkedin.com/posts/drpetr...

Synthetic biologists discuss with Nature why it’s so hard to write a genome. “We underestimated how complex biology is.” 🧪 🧬

On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

We must all support and applaude PLOS for adhering to their core principles.

"Genes are... the easy part" @philipcball.bsky.social argues biologists need to embrace complexity from the start, rather than beginning with oversimplified "one gene, one trait" models +1 www.cell.com/cell-systems...

My favorite podcast program made this less funny episode Not for the faint hearted 💔 podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/s...