Understanding the molecular diversity of synapses www.nature.com/articles/s41... - molecular diversity = functional diversity!

What a wonderful podcast interview of Shai Shaham by @stevenstrogatz.com! I love how Shai made the case for basic science: I think science has proven over and over how discoveries that seemed unimportant and fringe at any moment turn out to be all the rage just a couple of decades later. #Celegans

I occasionally did little threads over at The Other Place on papers in biology that seem only to make biology sound even more complicated and arbitrary but in fact illustrate some important generic principles. So here's one. This is the paper I’m looking at. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Holly Else reports at Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great story about mentorship, privilege, serendipity and more! 🧪

Very excited about this work and the potential applications of of cell-free RNA.

We learn in school about the distinctive shapes of each of our body’s organs, but how did that arise? Organs self-assemble, as individual cells change shape and move in coordinated ways, sometimes with multiple cell /tissue types shaping one another 1/n 🧪

Please check our publications posted recently: Cross-ancestry analysis identifies genes associated with obesity risk and protection www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Genetic modifiers and ascertainment drive variable expressivity of complex disorders www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...