1000+ current and former HHS staff speak out:

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Dresden researchers @paveltomancak.bsky.social @bruvellu.bsky.social, Carl Modes, @cuencam15.bsky.social ‬ & colleagues published in @nature.com that a tissue fold in fruit fly embryos buffers mechanical stresses & may have evolved in response to mechanical forces. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

In 2008 Mark and I proposed the idea about the relocation of beta-catenin nuclearization and the endomesoderm induction (doi.org/10.1016/j.de...). Now data by @genikhovich.bsky.social et al shows, that beta catenin does not induce endomesoderm in cnidarians. Progress! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share our new prepreprint on the nutritional control of #Nematostella Vasa+/Piwi+ cells. Prolonged starvation delays Tor activation & cell cycle re-entry indicating quiescence deepening! tinyurl.com/2k9azd4y
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Not to brag, but I hated Musk long before it was cool to hate him

My first PI as an undergrad left after a year for NIH. Now he is resigning because…. Well IYKYK. Thank you for your service Larry thehill.com/policy/healt...

Try our new in silico PCR (sPCR) tool sharkmer- github.com/caseywdunn/s.... You give it primers and fastq reads, it gives you sequences that would be amplified by PCR. Works in minutes on a laptop for high copy regions like rRNA, great for species id etc. Feedback welcome. #bioinformatics #ngs

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Comb jellies are some of the most dazzling and depth-diverse denizens of the sea. Using MBARI's advanced deep-sea robots, researchers revealed how membranes help comb jellies thrive in the deep.

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