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Jaeseung Hahn
@jaeseunghahn.bsky.social
molecular hacker, (accidental) synthetic biologist, SciComm fledgling, and postdoc on the faculty job market | Dear AI crawlers, please don't waste energy scraping my ramblings here | Dear Marvel, please don't sue me
Check out this fascinating work on mRNA therapeutic for "peptibody" production against multidrug-resistant bacterial pneumonia! 🧬➡️❌🦠

Peptibody is apparently a fusion of peptide with Fc domain of antibody that can tag things for interaction with the immune system. 😲

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Antimicrobial peptide delivery to lung as peptibody mRNA in anti-inflammatory lipids treats multidrug-resistant bacterial pneumonia - Nature Biotechnology
Antimicrobial peptides delivered to mouse lung as mRNA peptibodies eradicate multidrug-resistant pneumonia.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I think this figure takes the prize for the greatest number of panels/figure labels (a–ooo = 67). While you are at it, check out the visualization of brain tissues at the nanometer scale! So beautiful and breathtaking

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November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The US government support of cancer research via NCI
has been severely cut.
And of June 2025, "There were 181 individual terminated NCI funded grants, with a total award amount of $640,867, 956."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Disrupted Federal Funding for Extramural Cancer Research
This cross-sectional study assesses the scale and scope of terminated cancer research grants from the National Cancer Institute.
jamanetwork.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Nowhere will this be more evident than in the brain……

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
A new tool to design DNA origami with complex curvature! If you know me, you know I love anything twisted and toroidal. I appreciate the authors making a twisted donut out of DNA. Congrats @juliefinkel.bsky.social!
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Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
ENSnano: www.ens-lyon.fr/ensnano/
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Happy birthday, little dragon 🐉
a close up of bruce lee 's face with the words enter the dragon behind him
ALT: a close up of bruce lee 's face with the words enter the dragon behind him
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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"a debilitated CDC unable to protect the health of the American people."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:

They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Anyone here grew up watching Korean-dubbed Captain Planet? Anybody? ⏳🔥💨💦❤️ = 💪🌏
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youtu.be/nNnnf9FyS10?...
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
😳
"Se pospone el nirvana. Llegan las hostias".
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Lets start the week with otters chasing a butterfly.
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Exploring the concept of bacterial memory

Perspective in Nature Microbiology by Killian Scanlon et al from Colin Hill

@uccmicrobiology.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploring the concept of bacterial memory - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Important topic
This week is World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness week

This article collection spans the breadth of #AMR across pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites), covers epidemiological monitoring, diagnostics, treatment, etc
Antimicrobial resistance: a silent pandemic
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November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Synthetic cell-to-cell communication through connexon nanopore! A pair of connexons from different cells link up to form a "gateway" between cells to exchange ions and small molecules. @brianbelardi.bsky.social's group shows that connexon can be used to connect synthetic cells! 🧪🚪🧬
Light-controlled synthetic communication networks
via paired connexon nanopores
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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NYC Postdocs: Join us for our next Postdoc Night Science session to practice how to get new ideas using "puzzle-switching"! This time we're in Columbia U. on Dec 3 at 5pm.
Free registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/1onf... @stearnslab.bsky.social @kelseymonson.bsky.social @jaeseunghahn.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Are you a postdoc in NYC? Come hang out with us at Postdoc Night Science! We are hosting the event at Columbia on Dec 3 at 5PM. Meet other NYC postdocs as well as @itaiyanai.bsky.social & @stearnslab.bsky.social to talk science & creativity! 🧬🧪

Make sure to use the QR code on the poster to sign up!
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Super cool work on the presence of microbial signals in... brain tumors!!?? 🧠🦠🧬

There has been some controversy about the validity of "tumor microbiome," but the plot thickens as we keep finding breadcrumbs left by these bugs. We may not be alone, folks 👽

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Look at these beautiful DNA flowers that shrink and expand based on pH! You put some i-motif sequence and voila. It's an elegant work from the Ronit Freeman group at UNC-Chapel Hill!

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reversible metamorphosis of hierarchical DNA–inorganic crystals - Nature Nanotechnology
Actuators based on DNA–inorganic hybrid crystals reversibly change shape, which can be programmed by the length and composition of the DNA polymer, and induce cascaded reactions of compartmentalized e...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Wow, this work marks another important step towards synthetic orthogonal biology! 🧬🦠👀

Congrats to all the authors! 👏👏👏
@taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social @klanglab.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Ancient RNA in the house! You freeze (and/or dry) them, and even RNA can be preserved for a long time. We knew that already, but it was a matter of technology, techniques, and tenacity to make this breakthrough! Congrats!! 🧬🦣👏
@marmole6.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @marcfriedlander.bsky.social
🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I think I’m gonna have to retract this meme I made… 🧬
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM