Ben Allwein
@benallwein.bsky.social
Structural biology PhD student at Cornell/MSKCC studying DNA replication & membrane proteins
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My Op-Ed in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette was posted this morning.
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Jeremy M. Berg: Life-saving medicines begin in the basic research DOGE wants to stop funding
We should not lose sight of how wonderfully productive the biomedical research enterprise — now under threat — can be. The interplay between...
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April 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
My Op-Ed in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette was posted this morning.
(Registration required, but I have posted a pdf on my dashboard)
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A huge privilege to see @drewweissmanlab.bsky.social, 2023 Nobel laureate for developing mRNA-LNP vaccines, at MSK speaking about their future in cancer vaccines and *in vivo* CAR-T (!!!)
...at the same time as NIH has been reportedly advising grant applicants to avoid mentioning "mRNA vaccines"...
...at the same time as NIH has been reportedly advising grant applicants to avoid mentioning "mRNA vaccines"...
March 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A huge privilege to see @drewweissmanlab.bsky.social, 2023 Nobel laureate for developing mRNA-LNP vaccines, at MSK speaking about their future in cancer vaccines and *in vivo* CAR-T (!!!)
...at the same time as NIH has been reportedly advising grant applicants to avoid mentioning "mRNA vaccines"...
...at the same time as NIH has been reportedly advising grant applicants to avoid mentioning "mRNA vaccines"...
I am so proud to share a major part of my graduate school research, published today in Science, where we use cell-free replication assays and cryo-EM to describe a central mechanism of eukaryotic DNA replication:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
G-quadruplex–stalled eukaryotic replisome structure reveals helical inchworm DNA translocation
DNA G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non–B-form DNA secondary structures that threaten genome stability by impeding DNA replication. To elucidate how G4s induce replication fork arrest, we characterized fork ...
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March 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I am so proud to share a major part of my graduate school research, published today in Science, where we use cell-free replication assays and cryo-EM to describe a central mechanism of eukaryotic DNA replication:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...