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🧬🐛 Meet your worm avatar.
What if we could use tiny worms to find treatments for thousands of rare genetic diseases?
New research from the LMS shows it’s possible – cheaply, quickly, and at scale.
#RareDisease #DrugDiscovery #Science #WormAvatars #Biotech
What if we could use tiny worms to find treatments for thousands of rare genetic diseases?
New research from the LMS shows it’s possible – cheaply, quickly, and at scale.
#RareDisease #DrugDiscovery #Science #WormAvatars #Biotech
Meet your worm avatar: How microscopic worms are helping find new drugs for rare diseases
New research from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) provides a powerful, scalable method for finding treatments for rare genetic diseases using tiny, transparent worms.
lms.mrc.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🧬🐛 Meet your worm avatar.
What if we could use tiny worms to find treatments for thousands of rare genetic diseases?
New research from the LMS shows it’s possible – cheaply, quickly, and at scale.
#RareDisease #DrugDiscovery #Science #WormAvatars #Biotech
What if we could use tiny worms to find treatments for thousands of rare genetic diseases?
New research from the LMS shows it’s possible – cheaply, quickly, and at scale.
#RareDisease #DrugDiscovery #Science #WormAvatars #Biotech
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A new study, published today in Nature, reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue.
A better understanding of how weight loss leads to health improvements at a molecular level could help inform the development of therapies for diseases such as type 2 diabetes in the future.
A better understanding of how weight loss leads to health improvements at a molecular level could help inform the development of therapies for diseases such as type 2 diabetes in the future.
Study reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue
Scientists from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have produced the first detailed characterisation of the changes that weight loss causes in human fat tissue by...
lms.mrc.ac.uk
July 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A new study, published today in Nature, reveals the hidden benefits of weight loss on fat tissue.
A better understanding of how weight loss leads to health improvements at a molecular level could help inform the development of therapies for diseases such as type 2 diabetes in the future.
A better understanding of how weight loss leads to health improvements at a molecular level could help inform the development of therapies for diseases such as type 2 diabetes in the future.
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There's still time to apply for an Emerging Innovators Fellowship for scientists of Black heritage!
If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make an impact in the world of biomedical research, we encourage you to apply.
Applications close 11 May 2025.
Find out more 👇
If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make an impact in the world of biomedical research, we encourage you to apply.
Applications close 11 May 2025.
Find out more 👇
Emerging Innovators Fellowship - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
The Emerging Innovators Fellowship is a new 3-year fully-funded postdoctoral fellowship for scientists from Black Heritage Backgrounds.
lms.mrc.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There's still time to apply for an Emerging Innovators Fellowship for scientists of Black heritage!
If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make an impact in the world of biomedical research, we encourage you to apply.
Applications close 11 May 2025.
Find out more 👇
If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make an impact in the world of biomedical research, we encourage you to apply.
Applications close 11 May 2025.
Find out more 👇
We should really make a worm simulation. Great Wired article on OpenWorm and proposals to reverse engineer a worm.
www.wired.com/story/openwo...
www.wired.com/story/openwo...
The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We should really make a worm simulation. Great Wired article on OpenWorm and proposals to reverse engineer a worm.
www.wired.com/story/openwo...
www.wired.com/story/openwo...
You can deliver mRNA to worms by feeding using nanogel encapsulation. Not germ line (yet) but already useful for quickly testing gene function in an animal. What libraries should test?
December 10, 2024 at 10:01 AM
You can deliver mRNA to worms by feeding using nanogel encapsulation. Not germ line (yet) but already useful for quickly testing gene function in an animal. What libraries should test?
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Fantastic day celebrating the science of @mrc-lms.bsky.social held at the beautiful Royal Institution. Thank you for all the inspiring talks, proud to be part of this great community!
November 29, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Fantastic day celebrating the science of @mrc-lms.bsky.social held at the beautiful Royal Institution. Thank you for all the inspiring talks, proud to be part of this great community!
Jack Scannell on Twitter:
December 2, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Jack Scannell on Twitter: