Lenhard Hayflick, who passed on Aug 1 2024, demonstrated the finite replicative lifespan of normal human cells. Simple, well-designed experiments tackling fundamental questions can overturn our understanding of the principles regulating life. #CellularSenescence

The Weeks Lab UW–Madison Biochem is hiring at all levels! Broadly, our lab uses engineered enzymes to decipher cellular signaling to advance biological discovery and therapeutic development. If this sounds exciting to you, please reach out! Reposts appreciated. 🧪weekslaboratory.org

It was a pleasure to write this The EMBO Journal news and views about two wonderful papers from Tom Deegan and Karim Labib: embopress.org/doi/full/10.10… I highly recommend these papers. Thanks to Hartmut Vodermaier for the opportunity! 🫶🧪

Excited for our pub. in Nature Communications, Human Shu complex promotes RAD51 activity by modulating RPA dynamics on ssDNA, Congrats to ⁦Sarah R. Hengel Ph.D.⁩ ⁦Ben Van Houten⁩ ⁦Chelsea⁩ ⁦Maria Spies, PhD (she/her)⁩ ⁦Matt Schaich⁩ et al nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Raney, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He has now published more than 100 scientific papers that are indexed by PubMed at the National Library of Medicine. UAMS Health UAMS Cancer