Stella Hurtley
@smhsci.bsky.social
Deputy Editor Science magazine
Areas of responsibility include: Cell biology, cellular microbiology, membrane traffic, protein targeting, protein folding, organelle biogenesis, cytoskeleton, cell polarity, prion biology, developmental biology, stem cells
Areas of responsibility include: Cell biology, cellular microbiology, membrane traffic, protein targeting, protein folding, organelle biogenesis, cytoskeleton, cell polarity, prion biology, developmental biology, stem cells
Out now in @science.org
DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality
DNA-protein cross-links (DPCs) are highly toxic DNA lesions that block replication and transcription, but their impact on organismal physiology is unclear. We identified a role for the metalloprotease...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Out now in @science.org
DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We're looking for a new editor with experience in Next Generation Medicine. Are you ready to leave the bench (or bedside) and help us identify the best science for publication in @science.org
Send your CV and cover letter explaining why you're a good fit for the role.
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Send your CV and cover letter explaining why you're a good fit for the role.
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January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
We're looking for a new editor with experience in Next Generation Medicine. Are you ready to leave the bench (or bedside) and help us identify the best science for publication in @science.org
Send your CV and cover letter explaining why you're a good fit for the role.
bit.ly/4bWOJfn
Send your CV and cover letter explaining why you're a good fit for the role.
bit.ly/4bWOJfn
Look out for an exciting job opening coming up at Science - anyone interested in Next Generation Medicine? @science.org
We'll be posting the ad soon! .. Watch this space!
We'll be posting the ad soon! .. Watch this space!
January 27, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Look out for an exciting job opening coming up at Science - anyone interested in Next Generation Medicine? @science.org
We'll be posting the ad soon! .. Watch this space!
We'll be posting the ad soon! .. Watch this space!
Out now in @science.org Endogenous retroviruses synthesize heterologous chimeric RNAs to reinforce human early embryo development | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Endogenous retroviruses synthesize heterologous chimeric RNAs to reinforce human early embryo development
Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) failure leads to developmental arrest and poses a clinical challenge to women’s fertility. We observed that human embryos arresting at the eight-cell ZGA stage exhibite...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Out now in @science.org Endogenous retroviruses synthesize heterologous chimeric RNAs to reinforce human early embryo development | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
My choice last week in @science.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Caitlin E. Cornell, Aymeric Chorlay, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Nicholas R. Martin, Lucia Baldauf & Daniel A. Fletcher
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Caitlin E. Cornell, Aymeric Chorlay, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Nicholas R. Martin, Lucia Baldauf & Daniel A. Fletcher
January 22, 2026 at 3:42 PM
My choice last week in @science.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Caitlin E. Cornell, Aymeric Chorlay, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Nicholas R. Martin, Lucia Baldauf & Daniel A. Fletcher
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Caitlin E. Cornell, Aymeric Chorlay, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Nicholas R. Martin, Lucia Baldauf & Daniel A. Fletcher
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If you're doing innovative research about #microbiota and received an MD &/or PhD in last 10 yrs don’t forget to apply for the NOSTER & @science.org Microbiome Prize! Grand Prize: $25K & your essay published in Science Magazine
Deadline: Feb 14th
Enter: buff.ly/5GKZgUN
Deadline: Feb 14th
Enter: buff.ly/5GKZgUN
January 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
If you're doing innovative research about #microbiota and received an MD &/or PhD in last 10 yrs don’t forget to apply for the NOSTER & @science.org Microbiome Prize! Grand Prize: $25K & your essay published in Science Magazine
Deadline: Feb 14th
Enter: buff.ly/5GKZgUN
Deadline: Feb 14th
Enter: buff.ly/5GKZgUN
A little bit late after #cellbio2025. My choice last week in @science.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A little bit late after #cellbio2025. My choice last week in @science.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looking forward to #cellbio2025
I’ll be at there for @science.org
Find me Monday and Tuesday 2:30-3:30pm at the Science/AAAS
Booth #325
I’ll be at there for @science.org
Find me Monday and Tuesday 2:30-3:30pm at the Science/AAAS
Booth #325
December 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Looking forward to #cellbio2025
I’ll be at there for @science.org
Find me Monday and Tuesday 2:30-3:30pm at the Science/AAAS
Booth #325
I’ll be at there for @science.org
Find me Monday and Tuesday 2:30-3:30pm at the Science/AAAS
Booth #325
Congratulations to all the winners of the @science.org and SciLifeLab prize - Uche Medoh, King L. Hung, Liam Lachs, and Nitzan Tal
MOLECULAR MEDICINE
The missing piece: Solving the 50-year puzzle of BMP synthesis in neurodegeneration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
MOLECULAR MEDICINE
The missing piece: Solving the 50-year puzzle of BMP synthesis in neurodegeneration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The missing piece: Solving the 50-year puzzle of BMP synthesis in neurodegeneration
Solving the 50-year puzzle of BMP synthesis in neurodegeneration
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November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Congratulations to all the winners of the @science.org and SciLifeLab prize - Uche Medoh, King L. Hung, Liam Lachs, and Nitzan Tal
MOLECULAR MEDICINE
The missing piece: Solving the 50-year puzzle of BMP synthesis in neurodegeneration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
MOLECULAR MEDICINE
The missing piece: Solving the 50-year puzzle of BMP synthesis in neurodegeneration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congratulations to our two NOMIS & Science Grand Prize Winners @rachitdubey.bsky.social and Jiacheng Miao whose essays just published in @science.org
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November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Congratulations to our two NOMIS & Science Grand Prize Winners @rachitdubey.bsky.social and Jiacheng Miao whose essays just published in @science.org
www.science.org/content/page...
www.science.org/content/page...
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Honored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!!
Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today!
The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today!
The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The normalization of (almost) everything: Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal
Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal
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November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Honored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!!
Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today!
The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today!
The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Check out this cover paper and its related perspective in @science.org
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November 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Check out this cover paper and its related perspective in @science.org
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations
Mitochondrial synthesis of adenosine triphosphate is essential for eukaryotic life but is dependent on the cooperation of two genomes: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). mtDNA mutates ~15 times as...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Kiss-shrink-run” unifies mechanisms for synaptic vesicle exocytosis and hyperfast recycling | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“Kiss-shrink-run” unifies mechanisms for synaptic vesicle exocytosis and hyperfast recycling
Synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis underpins neuronal communication, yet its nanoscale dynamics remain poorly understood owing to limitations in visualizing rapid events in situ. Here, we used optogenet...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Kiss-shrink-run” unifies mechanisms for synaptic vesicle exocytosis and hyperfast recycling | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mesoscale volumetric fluorescence imaging at nanoscale resolution by photochemical sectioning | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mesoscale volumetric fluorescence imaging at nanoscale resolution by photochemical sectioning
Optical nanoscopy of intact biological specimens has been transformed by recent advancements in hydrogel-based tissue clearing and expansion, enabling the imaging of cellular and subcellular structure...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Mesoscale volumetric fluorescence imaging at nanoscale resolution by photochemical sectioning | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I was on vacation when this one went live - relatively new in @science.org
Epithelial tension controls intestinal cell extrusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Epithelial tension controls intestinal cell extrusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Epithelial tension controls intestinal cell extrusion
Cell extrusion is essential for homeostatic self-renewal of the intestinal epithelium. Extrusion is thought to be triggered by crowding-induced compression of cells at the intestinal villus tip. In th...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I was on vacation when this one went live - relatively new in @science.org
Epithelial tension controls intestinal cell extrusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Epithelial tension controls intestinal cell extrusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I was on vacation when this one went live - relatively new in @science.org
Transcription factors SP5 and SP8 drive primary cilia formation in mammalian embryos | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Transcription factors SP5 and SP8 drive primary cilia formation in mammalian embryos | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Transcription factors SP5 and SP8 drive primary cilia formation in mammalian embryos
Although specific transcription factors (TFs) are known to regulate cell fate decisions, the degree to which they can stimulate formation of specific cell organelles is less clear. We used a multiomic...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I was on vacation when this one went live - relatively new in @science.org
Transcription factors SP5 and SP8 drive primary cilia formation in mammalian embryos | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Transcription factors SP5 and SP8 drive primary cilia formation in mammalian embryos | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Re-upping this - applications will close - open to UK-based people too!!!
Come join us @science.org. We’re looking for a new editor to look after infectious disease and microbiome submissions.
Check out this Associate or Senior Editor opportunity recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
Check out this Associate or Senior Editor opportunity recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Re-upping this - applications will close - open to UK-based people too!!!
Come join us @science.org. We’re looking for a new editor to look after infectious disease and microbiome submissions.
Check out this Associate or Senior Editor opportunity recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
Check out this Associate or Senior Editor opportunity recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
recruiting.ultipro.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Come join us @science.org. We’re looking for a new editor to look after infectious disease and microbiome submissions.
Check out this Associate or Senior Editor opportunity recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
Check out this Associate or Senior Editor opportunity recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
August 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New in @science.org with a related Perspective
LYVAC/PDZD8 is a lysosomal vacuolator | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
LYVAC/PDZD8 is a lysosomal vacuolator | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
LYVAC/PDZD8 is a lysosomal vacuolator
Lysosomal vacuolation is commonly found in many pathophysiological conditions, but its molecular mechanisms and functions remain largely unknown. Here, we show that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)–anch...
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August 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
New in @science.org with a related Perspective
LYVAC/PDZD8 is a lysosomal vacuolator | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
LYVAC/PDZD8 is a lysosomal vacuolator | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New in @science.org a really helpful metaphor for many life stages!
How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike
This researcher struggled in grad school—until he embraced it as a time for learning
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August 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
New in @science.org a really helpful metaphor for many life stages!
How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...