Taiwanese National Healthcare is certainly not perfect. Doctors work longer hours. Some patients abuse low-cost healthcare. The fund had financial difficulties. Yet we are proud of it and are fixing/evolving it to keep it viable. vox.com/health-care/20…

Did a yeast version of miniprep. It smells exactly the same as my yeast-contaminated cell culture in the previous lab.

A great weekend for new DPP8/9 biology continues - here Darren and Marian show that DPP8/9 inhibitors induce pyroptosis in lymphocytes. Notably, resting but not activated T cells are particularly sensitive. nature.com/articles/s4141…

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Got my first COVID-19 vaccine dose today. The nurse asked me about my personal opinion on the fast-developed vaccine after I told her I'm a chemical biology student. Tried my best to explain mRNA vaccine to her. I am glad my knowledge is also helpful outside the lab!

TIL the Gateway LR clonase mix is just the BP mix with one additional protein that shifts the equilibrium to expression clone. So it's entirely possible to do BP/LR reaction together in a single pot. future-science.com/doi/full/10.21…

Wheels up! Our donation of 2.5 million vaccine doses is on the way to Taiwan, whose health partnership with the U.S. helped save lives here and around the world. Department of State is proud to support President Biden’ commitment to help the world defeat COVID-19.

The 17th annual Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Symposium is on Aug 31st! Keynotes by @katecarroll_lab, Bil Clemons, Shuibing Chen, and Stuart Schreiber. FREE to attend, registration required. Posters are encouraged! Register here: chembio.triiprograms.org/publications-n… #tpcbsymposium

Our friends at @TSCP_NYC are hosting their 17th annual Chemical Biology Symposium on August 31st. Register for free to hear from Stuart Schreiber, Bil Clemons Clemons Lab @Caltech, Shuibing Chen Weill Cornell Medicine, and Kate S. Carroll from Scripps Research chembio.triiprograms.org/symposium #chembio

We are halfway through #TPCBsymposium! My first time being an organizer and moderator, along with Lauren Vostal and J Jeya Vandana.

NLRP1 inflammasome is at work in the eye! Check out our latest paper in IOVS Journal. A great team effort with Hsin-Che Huang and Dan Bachovchin to explain how NLRP1 can cause corneal damage in disease. Thanks as always to Tri-I MD-PhD 👁️🧬🔬 iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…

We posted three preprints today. The first shows that cytosolic peptide accumulation activates the NLRP1 and CARD8 inflammasomes. This work was led by Elizabeth Orth and Hsin-Che Huang biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just realized that Moderna called its COVID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 because it encodes the full-length spike protein which is 1273 aa long.

Tried out #BetterPoster style at #KSInnateImmune23