Let’s play a little game. Let’s say that you’re the CSO at a cancer pharma company, and you have to choose a target to go after. Here’s a gene – high expression is associated with poor prognosis in brain cancer. Looks like a good candidate for an inhibitor right?

“Doubt equals treason” (dudar es traición) is the latest slogan promoted by the Venezuelan government. Totalitarian, North Korean style mentality.

Any ideas what this particle could be? Isolated from HEK293T cells.

This you?

‘The dumbest climate conversation of all time’: experts on the Musk-Trump interview. Infact soooo dumb, it should not be just called dumb. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

And I thought Trump’s answer to sea-level rise is to “build a wall and make Antarctica pay for it”?

"My experience as a reviewer for MDPI." deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-…

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Cancer has replaced cardiovascular diseases as the leading cause of death in several wealthy countries. This chart shows the share of reported deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases and cancer since 1950 in Denmark, Australia, the UK, and Canada. This is based on the

There are very real questions about whether or not anyone, let alone Kamala Harris (or Donald J. Trump), should be allowed to fly on the V-22. theaircurrent.com/aviation-safet…

TIL there is a indoor ski slope near Madrid. Customer skiing when it's 34 °C said: “I don't think it's problematic, I have to keep in shape, I used to ski in summer on glaciers but now I can't anymore!”

Is the preferred orientation problem in single-particle #cryoEM mostly an overfitting problem? Using BLUSH, we just got a pretty decent map from an unbelievably bad orientation distribution. At lower resolution than we would expect for good orientations, but fully interpretable.

Make publication ready figures from your #AlphaFold PAE files. Works on multimer and AlphaFold 3 files. Customize colors and export as an SVG for editing in illustrator! thecodingbiologist.com/tools/pae.html

When you commute for four hours a day in Switzerland, your portrait makes it into a major newspaper. But I am not impressed: He is using Swiss trains, which actually work.

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

GSLC Learn.Genetics Aaaand I'm giving my tenure talk this week!

Check that for yourselves. None of the many Exxon climate projections suggested there will be less warming than what independent academic institutions around the world found. And the predictions have come true. (I coauthored that study on Exxon projections.) 2/2

Duped? "Right-wing influencers enthusiastically spreading Putin's propaganda in the US" would be more accurate.

Why am I suddenly seeing 'Advancements' everywhere? What happened to just saying 'Advances' like normal people do?

THREAD I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Last couple of months I've started compiling rules etc I find myself saying. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses if anyone found it useful. Will prob keep adding, feel free to add your own!