A tiny white-petalled weed beloved of plant biologists has received a CRISPR-fueled makeover, turning it into a supersized ruby-colored bloom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chronic silencing is a critical barrier to breaking the cycle of bullying in academia and industry go.nature.com/482BUOY

The long-anticipated move, criticised by the US and Israel, will see the three Commonwealth countries join France and several others in formally recognising a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly this week. www.ft.com/content/36dd...

The September issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/... On the cover, a system for high-precision mutation detection of mRNA in extracellular vesicles. Song et al. present SCOPE, a method that uses Cas13 to recognize and amplify target RNA for liquid biopsy applications go.nature.com/47Yw8Mf

Bioactive molecules unearthed by terabase-scale long-read sequencing of a soil metagenome go.nature.com/4606ozA

A rapid imaging-based screen for induced-proximity degraders identifies a potent degrader of oncoprotein SKP2 go.nature.com/4mTBGhr

Our answers to climate change are damaging nature on.ft.com/3JWL9Gf

Quiet evening at Milan Cathedral, taking a short walk.. haha.. sorry that's my little friend from the Laboratory!!! #milan #Cathedral

Nothing like sipping coffee while leveling up the brows multitasking at its finest... glam and calm in one moment. #BrowGoals #GlamTime #BeautyRoutine

Non-profits wade in where for-profit life science investment fears to tread nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eyzXy

"In IRL events, there's a hell of a lot more accountability, and people behave very differently in person than they do virtually," founder Lucy Rout said.

Recent moves of note in and around the biotech and pharma industries go.nature.com/45WFeZc rdcu.be/eCTpZ

Employers can register for free, and must do so by Friday, September 5 at 3pm ET. For more information or to sign up, visit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CDS Assistant Professor Grace Lindsay (@neurograce.bsky.social) offers practical summer prep advice for incoming students: brush up on quantitative basics if you're targeting technical skills, or research industry job requirements and work backward to plan your academic path.

Australian startup Uluu is using seaweed and salt-loving microorganisms to produce bioplastics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Each year, we highlight companies that received sizeable early-stage funding in the previous year. @seaporttx.bsky.social is modifying central nervous system drugs for delivery through the lymphatic system, bypassing first-pass liver metabolism

🧬 A new AI tool from @utaustin.bsky.social & Sanofi could speed the development of mRNA-based therapies for viruses, cancers and genetic disorders. RiboNN predicts which mRNA sequences will be most efficiently translated into proteins. cns.utexas.edu/news/researc... @taccutexas.bsky.social

At the intersection of biopharma and the public sector sits an extensive international community of non-profit R&D organizations steering life science innovations in the direction of global health burdens www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eyzXy

A λ exonuclease system exhibits protospacer-adjacent motif-independent DNA-binding specificity, enabling diagnostic and imaging applications go.nature.com/3TwgkKk rdcu.be/eynve

Admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once called the national debt the “greatest threat to national security.” Watch CNBC's "America's Deficit Reckoning" to learn how the U.S. debt spiral could spark a crisis: cnb.cx/407S3O9

The greenback tumbled 10.7% against its global peers through June, making it the worst first half since 1973, back when Nixon broke the Bretton Woods gold standard. At its bottom, the currency hit its lowest point since February 2022.

IBM has been a hot stock, and CNBC’s Jim Cramer said CEO Arvind Krishna is to thank for Big Blue finding its mojo once again.

Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

Out today in @natbiotech.nature.com, IGI's @urnov.bsky.social and leaders across the #biotech industry on expanding patient access to #CRISPR cures with platform technology.

The Trump administration is rapidly unraveling federal support for scientific and technology research–terminating grants, capping funding, and tying awards to political criteria. District courts are pushing back, writes @patentscholar.bsky.social, but consequences for US innovation are profound.

Health aid is a small piece of America’s foreign aid, which is itself a small piece of the federal budget. In 2023, the US spent less than one percent of the federal budget on lifesaving global health programs: b-gat.es/4l9AyW1

Jones-Rooy co-authored the "Data Science for Everyone" book and is the host of the Data Science for Everyone Video Series. Vasant Dhar is the host of the "Brave New World" podcast, and author of "Thinking With Machines", available for preorder here: www.amazon.com/Thinking-Mac...

CDS Prof. @yann-lecun.bsky.social and CDS-affiliated Asst. Prof. @saining.bsky.social‬ show that visual self-supervised models, when scaled to 7B parameters and trained on 2B images, can match or outperform CLIP on VQA tasks—without any language supervision. Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01017

CDS Clinical Professor Pascal Wallisch was selected as one of only four NYU Trailblazers for 2025! His presentation explored what we learned from disagreeing about #theDress for over a decade. His research at Fox Lab examines how people construct their subjective reality.

New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as he was escorting a defendant out of immigration court, his wife said in a statement. Read more: cnb.cx/3HF4B9x

In @natbiotech.nature.com, CDS-affiliated @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @martinlercher.bsky.social discuss how openness fuels discovery. They highlight the evolutionary nature of research and advocate for embracing a creative process. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Individualized #cancer #vaccines targeting #neoantigens have shown promise in small-scale studies, but the field is waiting on data from Merck's & Moderna's phase 3 trial of the #mRNA vaccine Intismeran autogene in #melanoma. Just out in @natbiotech.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New tool improves the detection of hidden genetic mutations #NBTIntheNews www.uclahealth.org/news/release...

​U.S. global health and development aid is estimated to have saved 92 million lives over the past 20 years. We can't afford to let that kind of progress unravel: b-gat.es/4kjSUCG

CD8-targeted lipid nanoparticles carrying anti-CD19 CAR mRNA were developed to generate CAR-T cells directly in vivo, demonstrating effective B cell depletion for potential treatment of B cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NBThighlight

Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed “for most things” in the world, says Bill Gates.