Alejandro Rojas
@arojass.bsky.social
Biotech scientist, advisor, and founder | Focused on mechanistic biology, drug discovery, lab automation, neuromuscular & rare diseases | Español & English | Nostálgico de la familia, los amigos y los asados que quedaron en Chile | Views mine | He/him
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Read the resignation letter from FDA food director Jim Jones
Here is the resignation letter from Jim Jones, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Here is the resignation letter from Jim Jones, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Read the resignation letter from FDA food director Jim Jones
Here is the resignation letter from Jim Jones, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Read the resignation letter from FDA food director Jim Jones
Here is the resignation letter from Jim Jones, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Here is the resignation letter from Jim Jones, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Paper out !!🥳big thanks to all authors @marliesoomen.bsky.social @diego-rt.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @jonathangoeke.bsky.social @lorenzamottes.bsky.social & 'bluesky-less'
Lots of interesting new TE (& genes) biology
Data fully browsable💻 👉 embryo.helmholtz-munich.de/shiny_embryo/
Lots of interesting new TE (& genes) biology
Data fully browsable💻 👉 embryo.helmholtz-munich.de/shiny_embryo/
February 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Paper out !!🥳big thanks to all authors @marliesoomen.bsky.social @diego-rt.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @jonathangoeke.bsky.social @lorenzamottes.bsky.social & 'bluesky-less'
Lots of interesting new TE (& genes) biology
Data fully browsable💻 👉 embryo.helmholtz-munich.de/shiny_embryo/
Lots of interesting new TE (& genes) biology
Data fully browsable💻 👉 embryo.helmholtz-munich.de/shiny_embryo/
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There is evidence that Gardisil has largely eliminated cervical cancer in highly-vaccinated populations. Couldn't agree more with @drneilstone.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jnci/article...
academic.oup.com/jnci/article...
February 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
There is evidence that Gardisil has largely eliminated cervical cancer in highly-vaccinated populations. Couldn't agree more with @drneilstone.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jnci/article...
academic.oup.com/jnci/article...
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
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Under fascism, no one is safe.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Under fascism, no one is safe.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
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Somatic FBXW7-R465C mutant shows promise in targeted protein degradation in cancer cells. This approach enhances protein degradation specificity in diseased cells. Congrats Xiaoyu Zhang and colleagues. 🧪 #chembio #TPD #CancerResearch
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Harnessing the FBXW7 somatic mutant R465C for targeted protein degradation
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a pharmacological strategy that eliminates specific proteins from cells by harnessing cellular proteolytic degradation machinery. In proteasome-dependent TPD, exp...
www.biorxiv.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Somatic FBXW7-R465C mutant shows promise in targeted protein degradation in cancer cells. This approach enhances protein degradation specificity in diseased cells. Congrats Xiaoyu Zhang and colleagues. 🧪 #chembio #TPD #CancerResearch
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Got the chance to put together the "Click of Chemical Biologists" starter pack v1 and v2 over the Thanksgiving Break. Feel free to ping me on who else I might be missing!
V1: go.bsky.app/3P5i7nJ
V2: go.bsky.app/Cr4ej7
V1: go.bsky.app/3P5i7nJ
V2: go.bsky.app/Cr4ej7
December 1, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Got the chance to put together the "Click of Chemical Biologists" starter pack v1 and v2 over the Thanksgiving Break. Feel free to ping me on who else I might be missing!
V1: go.bsky.app/3P5i7nJ
V2: go.bsky.app/Cr4ej7
V1: go.bsky.app/3P5i7nJ
V2: go.bsky.app/Cr4ej7
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Euromuscular Disorders(2024)
👉#FSHD Poster 632P
A human skeletal muscle-on-chip model for #FSHD: improving maturation and complexity
💡muscle-on-chip designs demonstrating the superiority of 3D-TESMs over 2D #myotube cultures
📰https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096089662400539X
👉#FSHD Poster 632P
A human skeletal muscle-on-chip model for #FSHD: improving maturation and complexity
💡muscle-on-chip designs demonstrating the superiority of 3D-TESMs over 2D #myotube cultures
📰https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096089662400539X
November 19, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Why vaccinate your kids? Because measles can kill even years later. Erica Finkelstein-Parker's daughter, who infected as a baby, died at 8 1/2. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
Measles infections pose far more risks than most realize, including a fatal neurological complication
The virus can cause “immune amnesia,” leaving patients more vulnerable to other infections.
www.nbcnews.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Why vaccinate your kids? Because measles can kill even years later. Erica Finkelstein-Parker's daughter, who infected as a baby, died at 8 1/2. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...