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🧠 @mit.edu researchers have invented a 3D human brain #TissueCulture composed of all six major cell types.
This is opening up new avenues for disease research and drug discovery. Learn more about the "miBrains" from the Tsai lab: https://bit.ly/49PJe11
This is opening up new avenues for disease research and drug discovery. Learn more about the "miBrains" from the Tsai lab: https://bit.ly/49PJe11
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
🧠 @mit.edu researchers have invented a 3D human brain #TissueCulture composed of all six major cell types.
This is opening up new avenues for disease research and drug discovery. Learn more about the "miBrains" from the Tsai lab: https://bit.ly/49PJe11
This is opening up new avenues for disease research and drug discovery. Learn more about the "miBrains" from the Tsai lab: https://bit.ly/49PJe11
📝 Thirty-eight @danafarber.bsky.social researchers have been named to the Highly Cited Researchers list of 2025, released by the Institute for Scientific Information at @clarivate.com !
🧐 https://bit.ly/43wObId
#BostonScience
🧐 https://bit.ly/43wObId
#BostonScience
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
📝 Thirty-eight @danafarber.bsky.social researchers have been named to the Highly Cited Researchers list of 2025, released by the Institute for Scientific Information at @clarivate.com !
🧐 https://bit.ly/43wObId
#BostonScience
🧐 https://bit.ly/43wObId
#BostonScience
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Save the date! @isscr.org, @alleninstitute.org & @socdevbio.bsky.social are collaborating to present a 3-day scientific symposium led by early-career scientists. The Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium will be held September 23-25, 2026 in Seattle, WA. Learn more: bit.ly/4p98dkv
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Save the date! @isscr.org, @alleninstitute.org & @socdevbio.bsky.social are collaborating to present a 3-day scientific symposium led by early-career scientists. The Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium will be held September 23-25, 2026 in Seattle, WA. Learn more: bit.ly/4p98dkv
💡 Researchers from the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social have showed they can use messenger RNA to activate the pathway and trigger the immune system to attack tumors!
Check out the work from the Artzi lab in PNAS: https://bit.ly/4oBNqGe
Press release: https://bit.ly/447OtFD
Check out the work from the Artzi lab in PNAS: https://bit.ly/4oBNqGe
Press release: https://bit.ly/447OtFD
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
💡 Researchers from the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social have showed they can use messenger RNA to activate the pathway and trigger the immune system to attack tumors!
Check out the work from the Artzi lab in PNAS: https://bit.ly/4oBNqGe
Press release: https://bit.ly/447OtFD
Check out the work from the Artzi lab in PNAS: https://bit.ly/4oBNqGe
Press release: https://bit.ly/447OtFD
🪩 Dr. Joshua Sanes from @harvardmcb.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience.
The Gerard Prize, the society’s most prestigious honor, recognizes lifetime achievement in neuroscience: https://bit.ly/3WP91iq
The Gerard Prize, the society’s most prestigious honor, recognizes lifetime achievement in neuroscience: https://bit.ly/3WP91iq
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
🪩 Dr. Joshua Sanes from @harvardmcb.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience.
The Gerard Prize, the society’s most prestigious honor, recognizes lifetime achievement in neuroscience: https://bit.ly/3WP91iq
The Gerard Prize, the society’s most prestigious honor, recognizes lifetime achievement in neuroscience: https://bit.ly/3WP91iq
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During Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, we’re highlighting new research from Dana-Farber, @mit.edu, and the @broadinstitute.org revealing potential new ways to harness the immune system against pancreatic cancer. Learn more: bit.ly/3Wt0qBN
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
During Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, we’re highlighting new research from Dana-Farber, @mit.edu, and the @broadinstitute.org revealing potential new ways to harness the immune system against pancreatic cancer. Learn more: bit.ly/3Wt0qBN
💊 @mit.edu researchers in the Hammond and Irvine labs have designed nanoparticles that deliver an immune-stimulating molecule, IL-12, directly to #OvarianTumors.
When given along with checkpoint inhibitors, IL-12 helps the immune system attack cancer cells: https://bit.ly/4ozbI3U
When given along with checkpoint inhibitors, IL-12 helps the immune system attack cancer cells: https://bit.ly/4ozbI3U
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
💊 @mit.edu researchers in the Hammond and Irvine labs have designed nanoparticles that deliver an immune-stimulating molecule, IL-12, directly to #OvarianTumors.
When given along with checkpoint inhibitors, IL-12 helps the immune system attack cancer cells: https://bit.ly/4ozbI3U
When given along with checkpoint inhibitors, IL-12 helps the immune system attack cancer cells: https://bit.ly/4ozbI3U
Investigators at @umasschan.bsky.social received a $6.6 million grant from the NIH to evaluate potential gene editing technologies to correct granulin mutations.
Congratulations Drs. Scot Wolfe, Fen-Biao Gao, Erik Sontheimer, and Jonathan Watts: https://bit.ly/43TnHAJ
Congratulations Drs. Scot Wolfe, Fen-Biao Gao, Erik Sontheimer, and Jonathan Watts: https://bit.ly/43TnHAJ
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Investigators at @umasschan.bsky.social received a $6.6 million grant from the NIH to evaluate potential gene editing technologies to correct granulin mutations.
Congratulations Drs. Scot Wolfe, Fen-Biao Gao, Erik Sontheimer, and Jonathan Watts: https://bit.ly/43TnHAJ
Congratulations Drs. Scot Wolfe, Fen-Biao Gao, Erik Sontheimer, and Jonathan Watts: https://bit.ly/43TnHAJ
A new study, led by the Kwon Lab ( @ragoninstitute.bsky.social ) and Xavier Lab ( @broadinstitute.org ), shows that HIV infection and common antiretroviral drugs change the gut microbiome in distinct, geography-dependent ways.
📰: https://bit.ly/4qCw0ux
📝 Nature: https://go.nature.com/4nzH7ld
📰: https://bit.ly/4qCw0ux
📝 Nature: https://go.nature.com/4nzH7ld
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A new study, led by the Kwon Lab ( @ragoninstitute.bsky.social ) and Xavier Lab ( @broadinstitute.org ), shows that HIV infection and common antiretroviral drugs change the gut microbiome in distinct, geography-dependent ways.
📰: https://bit.ly/4qCw0ux
📝 Nature: https://go.nature.com/4nzH7ld
📰: https://bit.ly/4qCw0ux
📝 Nature: https://go.nature.com/4nzH7ld
A new @ragoninstitute.bsky.social study shows that a single mRNA-based vaccine mix can jump-start the early steps toward several promising HIV-fighting antibodies at the same time.
Learn more about the work from Drs. Xuesong Wang, Zhenfei Xie, and Yu Yan in the Batista lab: https://bit.ly/3WExxmd
Learn more about the work from Drs. Xuesong Wang, Zhenfei Xie, and Yu Yan in the Batista lab: https://bit.ly/3WExxmd
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A new @ragoninstitute.bsky.social study shows that a single mRNA-based vaccine mix can jump-start the early steps toward several promising HIV-fighting antibodies at the same time.
Learn more about the work from Drs. Xuesong Wang, Zhenfei Xie, and Yu Yan in the Batista lab: https://bit.ly/3WExxmd
Learn more about the work from Drs. Xuesong Wang, Zhenfei Xie, and Yu Yan in the Batista lab: https://bit.ly/3WExxmd
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Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇
Bats are more than just Halloween icons — HHMI scientists are studying them to explore fundamental questions about the brain & behavior. Their discoveries could have important implications for other species, including humans. Read more: bit.ly/434gm18
Bats are more than just Halloween icons — HHMI scientists are studying them to explore fundamental questions about the brain & behavior. Their discoveries could have important implications for other species, including humans. Read more: bit.ly/434gm18
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇
Bats are more than just Halloween icons — HHMI scientists are studying them to explore fundamental questions about the brain & behavior. Their discoveries could have important implications for other species, including humans. Read more: bit.ly/434gm18
Bats are more than just Halloween icons — HHMI scientists are studying them to explore fundamental questions about the brain & behavior. Their discoveries could have important implications for other species, including humans. Read more: bit.ly/434gm18
Halloween in the lab means swapping pipettes for pumpkins (but maybe not at the same time). Whether you’re running gels or running from ghosts, we wish everyone a frightfully fun and scientifically sound Halloween! 👩🔬🧛♀️
🎃 Happy Halloween!
🎃 Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Halloween in the lab means swapping pipettes for pumpkins (but maybe not at the same time). Whether you’re running gels or running from ghosts, we wish everyone a frightfully fun and scientifically sound Halloween! 👩🔬🧛♀️
🎃 Happy Halloween!
🎃 Happy Halloween!
🎙️ This week's episode of the @stemcellpodcast.com features Dr. Juan Melero‑Martin ( @meleromartinlab.bsky.social ) from @bostonchildrens.bsky.social! Dive into the conversation where he explores how vascular networks form and influence stem-cell engraftment.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/3Lg37UX
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/3Lg37UX
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🎙️ This week's episode of the @stemcellpodcast.com features Dr. Juan Melero‑Martin ( @meleromartinlab.bsky.social ) from @bostonchildrens.bsky.social! Dive into the conversation where he explores how vascular networks form and influence stem-cell engraftment.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/3Lg37UX
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/3Lg37UX
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#Bioreactors are key for #CellCulture, but tend to land in a sticky situation: Adherence!
🫧 The Varanasi lab at @mit.edu has developed an approach for detaching cells from surfaces on demand using electrochemically generated bubbles.
News: https://bit.ly/4oFJ3tk
Abstract: https://bit.ly/434wxeN
🫧 The Varanasi lab at @mit.edu has developed an approach for detaching cells from surfaces on demand using electrochemically generated bubbles.
News: https://bit.ly/4oFJ3tk
Abstract: https://bit.ly/434wxeN
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
#Bioreactors are key for #CellCulture, but tend to land in a sticky situation: Adherence!
🫧 The Varanasi lab at @mit.edu has developed an approach for detaching cells from surfaces on demand using electrochemically generated bubbles.
News: https://bit.ly/4oFJ3tk
Abstract: https://bit.ly/434wxeN
🫧 The Varanasi lab at @mit.edu has developed an approach for detaching cells from surfaces on demand using electrochemically generated bubbles.
News: https://bit.ly/4oFJ3tk
Abstract: https://bit.ly/434wxeN
Dr. Stephanie Carreiro from @umasschan.bsky.social has received a Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
She will use this award to advance #PrecisionMedicine for opioid use disorder and mentor emerging scientists: https://bit.ly/47tmUYe
She will use this award to advance #PrecisionMedicine for opioid use disorder and mentor emerging scientists: https://bit.ly/47tmUYe
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Dr. Stephanie Carreiro from @umasschan.bsky.social has received a Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
She will use this award to advance #PrecisionMedicine for opioid use disorder and mentor emerging scientists: https://bit.ly/47tmUYe
She will use this award to advance #PrecisionMedicine for opioid use disorder and mentor emerging scientists: https://bit.ly/47tmUYe
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"What mattered, I realized, was not to be some imaginary perfect mentor with all the answers, but to get to know my mentee ... and offer whatever guidance and support I could based on my own experiences." #NationalMentoringDay https://scim.ag/47mSs29
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"What mattered, I realized, was not to be some imaginary perfect mentor with all the answers, but to get to know my mentee ... and offer whatever guidance and support I could based on my own experiences." #NationalMentoringDay https://scim.ag/47mSs29
Dr. Charles Park, a postdoctoral researcher in the Mitagotri lab at the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social , has been named a 2025 STAT Wunderkind by STAT News! Dr. Park’s work focuses on reprogramming #macrophages to take on #AntiCancer phenotypes.
👏 Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4oAT1w9
👏 Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4oAT1w9
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Dr. Charles Park, a postdoctoral researcher in the Mitagotri lab at the @wyssinstitute.bsky.social , has been named a 2025 STAT Wunderkind by STAT News! Dr. Park’s work focuses on reprogramming #macrophages to take on #AntiCancer phenotypes.
👏 Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4oAT1w9
👏 Congratulations! https://bit.ly/4oAT1w9
A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by the Tsai and Langer labs at @mit.edu is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells, and the vasculature into a single culture.
🗞️ Press release: https://bit.ly/3WV1mPi
🧠 Abstract in PNAS: https://bit.ly/48NAlot
🗞️ Press release: https://bit.ly/3WV1mPi
🧠 Abstract in PNAS: https://bit.ly/48NAlot
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by the Tsai and Langer labs at @mit.edu is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells, and the vasculature into a single culture.
🗞️ Press release: https://bit.ly/3WV1mPi
🧠 Abstract in PNAS: https://bit.ly/48NAlot
🗞️ Press release: https://bit.ly/3WV1mPi
🧠 Abstract in PNAS: https://bit.ly/48NAlot
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New work from Dr. Shamil Sunyaev at @harvard.edu shows that as men age, harmful genetic mutations in #sperm not only accumulate but are favored during sperm production, giving them a reproductive advantage.
📑 Nature study: https://go.nature.com/3WCZ736
🎙️ Podcast episode: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
📑 Nature study: https://go.nature.com/3WCZ736
🎙️ Podcast episode: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
October 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
New work from Dr. Shamil Sunyaev at @harvard.edu shows that as men age, harmful genetic mutations in #sperm not only accumulate but are favored during sperm production, giving them a reproductive advantage.
📑 Nature study: https://go.nature.com/3WCZ736
🎙️ Podcast episode: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
📑 Nature study: https://go.nature.com/3WCZ736
🎙️ Podcast episode: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
Congratulations Dr. Wilfredo Garcia-Beltran from the @ragoninstitute.bsky.social on receiving a NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program award!
This grant will support a new project that retools #NaturalKiller cells to better locate, enter, and destroy solid tumors: https://bit.ly/4nZMWcG
This grant will support a new project that retools #NaturalKiller cells to better locate, enter, and destroy solid tumors: https://bit.ly/4nZMWcG
October 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Congratulations Dr. Wilfredo Garcia-Beltran from the @ragoninstitute.bsky.social on receiving a NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program award!
This grant will support a new project that retools #NaturalKiller cells to better locate, enter, and destroy solid tumors: https://bit.ly/4nZMWcG
This grant will support a new project that retools #NaturalKiller cells to better locate, enter, and destroy solid tumors: https://bit.ly/4nZMWcG
"The germline is the only cell type responsible for transmitting the genome from generation to generation," @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social 's Dr. Yukiko Yamashita says.
⏳ Learn about how the Yamashita lab is teasing apart how the #germline remains immortal! https://bit.ly/42QARy3
⏳ Learn about how the Yamashita lab is teasing apart how the #germline remains immortal! https://bit.ly/42QARy3
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"The germline is the only cell type responsible for transmitting the genome from generation to generation," @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social 's Dr. Yukiko Yamashita says.
⏳ Learn about how the Yamashita lab is teasing apart how the #germline remains immortal! https://bit.ly/42QARy3
⏳ Learn about how the Yamashita lab is teasing apart how the #germline remains immortal! https://bit.ly/42QARy3
💡 @mit.edu engineers have designed a new control mechanism that allows them to establish a desired protein level for any gene circuit. This approach also allows them to edit the set point after the circuit is delivered.
Learn more about the work from the Galloway lab: https://bit.ly/48zqzWJ
Learn more about the work from the Galloway lab: https://bit.ly/48zqzWJ
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
💡 @mit.edu engineers have designed a new control mechanism that allows them to establish a desired protein level for any gene circuit. This approach also allows them to edit the set point after the circuit is delivered.
Learn more about the work from the Galloway lab: https://bit.ly/48zqzWJ
Learn more about the work from the Galloway lab: https://bit.ly/48zqzWJ
Dr. Alison Ringel from the @ragoninstitute.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation! Dr. Ringel aims create a more comprehensive biomedical understanding of the cause and possible treatments for aging-related decline.
🥳 https://bit.ly/499nxsv
🥳 https://bit.ly/499nxsv
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Dr. Alison Ringel from the @ragoninstitute.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation! Dr. Ringel aims create a more comprehensive biomedical understanding of the cause and possible treatments for aging-related decline.
🥳 https://bit.ly/499nxsv
🥳 https://bit.ly/499nxsv
🚨 @mit.edu chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumors.
Learn more about the new, borenium ion-based dye: https://bit.ly/47tfxkP
#FluorescentMicroscopy
Learn more about the new, borenium ion-based dye: https://bit.ly/47tfxkP
#FluorescentMicroscopy
October 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚨 @mit.edu chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumors.
Learn more about the new, borenium ion-based dye: https://bit.ly/47tfxkP
#FluorescentMicroscopy
Learn more about the new, borenium ion-based dye: https://bit.ly/47tfxkP
#FluorescentMicroscopy