Barbara Gerratana
@bgerratana.bsky.social
Science driven evidence, biotechnology, synthetic biology, health, cancer, alternative food
The opinions expressed are those of the individual alone and do not reflect those of EISMEA, the EIC or the European Commission.
The opinions expressed are those of the individual alone and do not reflect those of EISMEA, the EIC or the European Commission.
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I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly.
Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.
You can sign up at the link below!
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Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.
You can sign up at the link below!
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
July 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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One of the most original stories I have heard in the @femsmicro.org Congress thus far is the proposition by Rachel Armstrong to develop bioreceptive construction materials for functionalizing built surfaces eg catalytic walls with natural or genet eng microorganisms 😱
July 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
One of the most original stories I have heard in the @femsmicro.org Congress thus far is the proposition by Rachel Armstrong to develop bioreceptive construction materials for functionalizing built surfaces eg catalytic walls with natural or genet eng microorganisms 😱
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#SynBYSS Thur 10 am USA CT
167th, Jul 17: Prof Tim Bugg at University of Warwick & Dr Erin Garza at JCVI
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168th, Jul 24: Dr Emma Yee, an Editor at Cell & Prof Miguel Jimenez at Boston Univ.
@cellpress.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social
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167th, Jul 17: Prof Tim Bugg at University of Warwick & Dr Erin Garza at JCVI
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168th, Jul 24: Dr Emma Yee, an Editor at Cell & Prof Miguel Jimenez at Boston Univ.
@cellpress.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social
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July 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#SynBYSS Thur 10 am USA CT
167th, Jul 17: Prof Tim Bugg at University of Warwick & Dr Erin Garza at JCVI
@jcvi.org
168th, Jul 24: Dr Emma Yee, an Editor at Cell & Prof Miguel Jimenez at Boston Univ.
@cellpress.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social
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167th, Jul 17: Prof Tim Bugg at University of Warwick & Dr Erin Garza at JCVI
@jcvi.org
168th, Jul 24: Dr Emma Yee, an Editor at Cell & Prof Miguel Jimenez at Boston Univ.
@cellpress.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social
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Fantastic opportunity at my postdoc institute 👇If you have any questions about a TT, life in Cambridge, the LMB or the PNAC division feel free to reach out !
We are looking to recruit a tenure track group leader in the field of Chemical/Synthetic Biology (in the broadest sense) to lead a research program within the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry ( www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW809/r... ) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).
Research Group Leader in Chemical/Synthetic Biology at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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July 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Fantastic opportunity at my postdoc institute 👇If you have any questions about a TT, life in Cambridge, the LMB or the PNAC division feel free to reach out !
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We updated our website supervised-morphogenesis.eu! New links to data-sets, code & publications. Check it out! #EIC #EICPathfinder #HorizonEU #gastruloids #embryomodels #EngineeredLivingMaterial @bgerratana.bsky.social
SUMO – SUpervised MOrphogenesis – Supervised Morphogenesis
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April 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We updated our website supervised-morphogenesis.eu! New links to data-sets, code & publications. Check it out! #EIC #EICPathfinder #HorizonEU #gastruloids #embryomodels #EngineeredLivingMaterial @bgerratana.bsky.social
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Finally, thanks to the funding that made this dream project possible: @maxplanck.de, Bf3R, Stiftung SET, EIC #EICPathfinder @ec.europa.eu @bgerratana.bsky.social
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April 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Finally, thanks to the funding that made this dream project possible: @maxplanck.de, Bf3R, Stiftung SET, EIC #EICPathfinder @ec.europa.eu @bgerratana.bsky.social
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Mr. Trump—I’ve known Chris Van Hollen since the last century, and the last thing anyone who knows him would call him is a grandstander. He’s a defender of human rights. You should meet with him—you could learn something.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump White House Lashes Out At Senator Who Visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia In El Salvador
"GRANDSTANDER!!!" the president wrote on social media. He later smeared the Maryland immigrant's character, as well.
www.huffpost.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Mr. Trump—I’ve known Chris Van Hollen since the last century, and the last thing anyone who knows him would call him is a grandstander. He’s a defender of human rights. You should meet with him—you could learn something.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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While we're embedding biofactories in contact lenses to make them smarter, others are integrating electronics and sensors. At our Techtransfer day event, we'll meet the pioneers in this sector and talk to industry experts on their vision of the future!
www.linkedin.com/events/techt...
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TechTransferDay - Smart Contact Lenses: Embedded Technologies beyond Vision | LinkedIn
Tomorrow’s contact lenses will leverage our capabilities to perceive and interact with the world around us. Augmented reality contact lenses will enable navigation and communication without the need o...
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April 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
While we're embedding biofactories in contact lenses to make them smarter, others are integrating electronics and sensors. At our Techtransfer day event, we'll meet the pioneers in this sector and talk to industry experts on their vision of the future!
www.linkedin.com/events/techt...
www.linkedin.com/events/techt...
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Congrats to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing & prime editing: 2 breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation. hhmi.news/3RA6shj
April 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Congrats to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing & prime editing: 2 breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation. hhmi.news/3RA6shj
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Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation
Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
Big Pharma Needs to Get Off the Sidelines
The industry can’t continue to sit idly by while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the nation’s public health agencies.
www.bloomberg.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation
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2025 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course in Synthetic Biology - apply!
Deadline: April 14, 2025
Financial Aid: Stipend awards are available.
Notifications: Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2025.
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Deadline: April 14, 2025
Financial Aid: Stipend awards are available.
Notifications: Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2025.
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Synthetic Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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March 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
2025 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course in Synthetic Biology - apply!
Deadline: April 14, 2025
Financial Aid: Stipend awards are available.
Notifications: Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2025.
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Deadline: April 14, 2025
Financial Aid: Stipend awards are available.
Notifications: Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2025.
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
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The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
March 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
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Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set
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🔭 The Einstein AI model
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a compressed 21st century.
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March 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set
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Deeply concerned about NSF. They fired more people than they needed and now leadership is illegally reclassifying employees as probationary. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says
National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Deeply concerned about NSF. They fired more people than they needed and now leadership is illegally reclassifying employees as probationary. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London
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If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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March 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London
🎉🚨🇬🇧🫖
If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
🎉🚨🇬🇧🫖
If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to El Salvador, arguing that the court should end its “continued intrusions” into the authority of the executive branch.
Justice Department resists judge's demand for more details on deportation flights signaling legal showdown
It’s the latest development in a showdown between the Trump administration and the judge who temporarily blocked deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration.
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March 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to El Salvador, arguing that the court should end its “continued intrusions” into the authority of the executive branch.
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RFK Jr. suggests the bird flu should be allowed to spread unchecked to identify birds that could be immune.
RFK Jr. Unveils Disturbing Plan to Combat Bird Flu
Trump’s health secretary has proposed the worst idea, as egg prices continue to skyrocket.
newrepublic.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
RFK Jr. suggests the bird flu should be allowed to spread unchecked to identify birds that could be immune.
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Trump’s new economic constraints on the NSF and NIH deliver another self-inflicted wound to American progress—derailing decades of biological and biomedical research. Doctoral candidates nationwide are already feeling the sting.
Put American innovation first by funding the NSF and NIH
The Trump administration is risking Americans' health and safety by cutting science and research funding.
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March 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Trump’s new economic constraints on the NSF and NIH deliver another self-inflicted wound to American progress—derailing decades of biological and biomedical research. Doctoral candidates nationwide are already feeling the sting.
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Ben & Jerry's alleges its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker's social and political activism.
Ben & Jerry's alleges parent company Unilever removed its CEO over social activism
Ben & Jerry’s says its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker’s social and political activism.
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March 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ben & Jerry's alleges its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker's social and political activism.
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Email sent to FDA staff informs that agency leadership canceled the agency's LexisNexis subscription, even though staff need this tool to research legal and regulatory information as part of their jobs.
I'm reproducing the text of the email here:
I'm reproducing the text of the email here:
March 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Email sent to FDA staff informs that agency leadership canceled the agency's LexisNexis subscription, even though staff need this tool to research legal and regulatory information as part of their jobs.
I'm reproducing the text of the email here:
I'm reproducing the text of the email here:
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Canadian consumers are responding to U.S. tariffs and presidential musings of annexation with a “Buy Canadian” movement that retailers and producers are swiftly embracing
Bye America, Buy Canadian: Consumers, Retailers Change Tack to Counter Tariff Stresses
Canadian consumers are responding to U.S. tariffs and presidential musings of annexation with a “Buy Canadian” movement that retailers and producers are swiftly embracing.
www.wsj.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Canadian consumers are responding to U.S. tariffs and presidential musings of annexation with a “Buy Canadian” movement that retailers and producers are swiftly embracing
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More than 600 NOAA workers were laid off. This week, federal government reinstated some of them, but they were placed on administrative leave and have not been asked to return to work.
No one seems to know what this means - and how it will affect services in wake of severe storms nbcnews.to/4iE0WGj
No one seems to know what this means - and how it will affect services in wake of severe storms nbcnews.to/4iE0WGj
Fired workers are reinstated at NOAA, creating confusion on the heels of severe storms
The agency had already halted several services because of staffing issues following the cuts, including some weather balloon launches. It is not clear whether those will resume.
nbcnews.to
March 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
More than 600 NOAA workers were laid off. This week, federal government reinstated some of them, but they were placed on administrative leave and have not been asked to return to work.
No one seems to know what this means - and how it will affect services in wake of severe storms nbcnews.to/4iE0WGj
No one seems to know what this means - and how it will affect services in wake of severe storms nbcnews.to/4iE0WGj
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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched…
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
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This is insane. Arguably the greatest achievement of the first Trump administration was Operation Warp Speed.
And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials
www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials
www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
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By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is insane. Arguably the greatest achievement of the first Trump administration was Operation Warp Speed.
And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials
www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials
www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
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NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
scim.ag
March 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i