BTW, October is breast cancer awareness month, and this Maine farmer raises money for the disease by growing pretty pink pumpkins. Watch a short video about it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=12lp...

What caused the pink? Barbara McClintock discovered that jumping genes (aka transposons) cause color variations in maize. Could jumping genes be the story behind this pink pumpkin? We have the pumpkin genome so someone knows!?

Shimon Sakaguchi is the Distinguished Professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Japan.

As of 9:11 AM EST I’m waiting for the news to appear on the ISB website. Hey, Lee Hood — wake up your media people!

#NobelPrize #Immunology #Medicine #autoimmunedisorders

A fantastic day for science communication, when writers like Liz Fuller-Wright show how important their work is. Up early at the Princeton University Office of Communication, Liz wrote about the Nobel going to Princeton graduate alumna Mary Brunkow. 

www.princeton.edu/news/2025/10...

It’s a great day for American Science and innovative companies like Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Inc. (San Francisco) and Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle).

#science #biology #genomics #ScienceEd #Vaccine #Evolution #SciArt #mRNA #COVID #biomedical

Where can you find Dr. Karikó now? At University of Szeged in Hungary and on lecture tour.
u-szeged.hu/english

Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, retired in 2025 after severe funding cuts and muzzled from talking. So he’s writing a book!
www.francisscollins.com

Everyone was thrilled when, the day after the meeting, Dr. Karikó and her colleague Drew Weissman were awarded the Nobel Prize. Their research enabled the development of mRNA vaccines, saving millions of lives from the COVID-19 pandemic.

That's Kati talking to Dr. Francis Collins on Saturday, September 30, 2023 @cshlnews.bsky.social (CSHL). They both gave talks at CSHL the weekend before the Nobel announcement.

It’s super-easy to buy my books, notecards, fine art prints, and Rebel Artist stickers from my online store at: fellmanstudio.com/shop/

I wonder if this is the location of the promised women’s museum that has not materialized

Who is Rebel Artist? I am—Lynn Fellman, artist and author. And "Artist" is a character in my books on genomic research who refuses to be contained by ink and paper. We venture out together into real-world labs to visit working scientists and report back on their extraordinary research.