Nirosha J. Murugan
@msahsorin.bsky.social
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Tissue Biophysics & Assistant Professor.
Leveraging biophysical & quantum signals to redefine health.
Leveraging biophysical & quantum signals to redefine health.
Just leaving this right here....👀
October 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Just leaving this right here....👀
Isn’t it interesting that both chlorophyll and heme, 2 most important pigments of life, share the same #quantum architecture?
Beautiful to think that the 2 organelles (chloroplasts and mitochondria) born of endosymbiosis operate on this shared, quantum-informed design.
Beautiful to think that the 2 organelles (chloroplasts and mitochondria) born of endosymbiosis operate on this shared, quantum-informed design.
October 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Isn’t it interesting that both chlorophyll and heme, 2 most important pigments of life, share the same #quantum architecture?
Beautiful to think that the 2 organelles (chloroplasts and mitochondria) born of endosymbiosis operate on this shared, quantum-informed design.
Beautiful to think that the 2 organelles (chloroplasts and mitochondria) born of endosymbiosis operate on this shared, quantum-informed design.
Reposted by Nirosha J. Murugan
Neuroscientists! This is a great opportunity to recognize excellent colleagues for a prize and linked to give a talk at the FENS Forum in 2026! Nominate or apply directly! Deadline: Oct 29th!
ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
📣 Deadline extended to 29 Oct 2025! The ALBA–Elsevier Award Lecture honours neuroscientists from underrepresented regions (based on Elsevier authorship metrics & journal market share, & past conference speakers).
🏆 Special Lecture at #FENS2026
✅ Must have led own lab ≥5 years
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🏆 Special Lecture at #FENS2026
✅ Must have led own lab ≥5 years
👉🏽 loom.ly/FEG7E-w
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Neuroscientists! This is a great opportunity to recognize excellent colleagues for a prize and linked to give a talk at the FENS Forum in 2026! Nominate or apply directly! Deadline: Oct 29th!
ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
Reposted by Nirosha J. Murugan
What is the physical basis of death? Can we manipulate cellular rules to avoid it? What does death mean for a machine? Is immortality possible? What does it mean for language, thought, or information to die? My new book @princetonupress.bsky.social is coming soon. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
What is the physical basis of death? Can we manipulate cellular rules to avoid it? What does death mean for a machine? Is immortality possible? What does it mean for language, thought, or information to die? My new book @princetonupress.bsky.social is coming soon. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Ryotatsu Yanagimoto and coauthors introduce a programmable nonlinear photonic chip. By projecting light patterns onto a waveguide, they reconfigure how light interacts with light—opening the door to software-defined quantum, sensing, and communication optics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics - Nature
An optical slab waveguide with highly programmable nonlinear functionality is described, enabling the demonstration of versatile control over broadband second-harmonic generation across the spectral, spatial and spatio-spectral domains.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Ryotatsu Yanagimoto and coauthors introduce a programmable nonlinear photonic chip. By projecting light patterns onto a waveguide, they reconfigure how light interacts with light—opening the door to software-defined quantum, sensing, and communication optics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Local and long-range biological patterns guided by physical forces. Beautiful.
Singh, A., Thale, S., Leibner, T., Lamparter, L., Ricker, A., Nüsse, H., Klingauf, J., Galic, M., Ohlberger, M., & Matis, M. (2024). Dynamic interplay of microtubule and actomyosin forces drive tissue extension. Nature communications, 15(1), 3198. #EpithelialMechanics
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October 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Local and long-range biological patterns guided by physical forces. Beautiful.
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Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Biology and life is beautiful. AI-generated images definitely doesnt do that beauty justice.
Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images
October 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Biology and life is beautiful. AI-generated images definitely doesnt do that beauty justice.
Reposted by Nirosha J. Murugan
Without resistance there can be no transformation of anything into anything else. Like a beaming photon in outer space.
But with too much resistance, energy cannot flow, damage accumulates, and we die. Like electrons trying to flow in a defective mitochondrion.
But with too much resistance, energy cannot flow, damage accumulates, and we die. Like electrons trying to flow in a defective mitochondrion.
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Without resistance there can be no transformation of anything into anything else. Like a beaming photon in outer space.
But with too much resistance, energy cannot flow, damage accumulates, and we die. Like electrons trying to flow in a defective mitochondrion.
But with too much resistance, energy cannot flow, damage accumulates, and we die. Like electrons trying to flow in a defective mitochondrion.
One of my most exciting & frame-shifting papers to date.
The Energy Resistance Principle shows how resistance to energy shapes the dynamics of life and health.
A new lens to understand & optimize energy across the lifespan, inspiring tools that sense & tune the body’s energetic architecture.
The Energy Resistance Principle shows how resistance to energy shapes the dynamics of life and health.
A new lens to understand & optimize energy across the lifespan, inspiring tools that sense & tune the body’s energetic architecture.
October 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One of my most exciting & frame-shifting papers to date.
The Energy Resistance Principle shows how resistance to energy shapes the dynamics of life and health.
A new lens to understand & optimize energy across the lifespan, inspiring tools that sense & tune the body’s energetic architecture.
The Energy Resistance Principle shows how resistance to energy shapes the dynamics of life and health.
A new lens to understand & optimize energy across the lifespan, inspiring tools that sense & tune the body’s energetic architecture.
Using RNA-seq to study brain-body interactions is like watching the movement of the stars with a microscope.
Higher resolution isn’t always better. The closer we look, the easier it is to lose sight of patterns that only emerge in the whole.
Higher resolution isn’t always better. The closer we look, the easier it is to lose sight of patterns that only emerge in the whole.
October 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Using RNA-seq to study brain-body interactions is like watching the movement of the stars with a microscope.
Higher resolution isn’t always better. The closer we look, the easier it is to lose sight of patterns that only emerge in the whole.
Higher resolution isn’t always better. The closer we look, the easier it is to lose sight of patterns that only emerge in the whole.
It's now increasingly clear that mitochondria in all cell types respond to light, transforming photons of different energies (λ, wavelength) into the chemistry that sustains our life.
Could these energy translators also send light back out as information?
🔗https://tinyurl.com/mrfm6psr
Could these energy translators also send light back out as information?
🔗https://tinyurl.com/mrfm6psr
October 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's now increasingly clear that mitochondria in all cell types respond to light, transforming photons of different energies (λ, wavelength) into the chemistry that sustains our life.
Could these energy translators also send light back out as information?
🔗https://tinyurl.com/mrfm6psr
Could these energy translators also send light back out as information?
🔗https://tinyurl.com/mrfm6psr
Science communication is changing. Too often, ideas vanish in rejected grants, reviewer edits, or word limits.
Love that new spaces for longer, nuanced dialogue are emerging, not just scientist-to-scientist, opening science to the public, sparking curiosity, and supporting more informed decisions!
Love that new spaces for longer, nuanced dialogue are emerging, not just scientist-to-scientist, opening science to the public, sparking curiosity, and supporting more informed decisions!
September 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Science communication is changing. Too often, ideas vanish in rejected grants, reviewer edits, or word limits.
Love that new spaces for longer, nuanced dialogue are emerging, not just scientist-to-scientist, opening science to the public, sparking curiosity, and supporting more informed decisions!
Love that new spaces for longer, nuanced dialogue are emerging, not just scientist-to-scientist, opening science to the public, sparking curiosity, and supporting more informed decisions!
What is energy? A force, a feeling, a pattern of life?
Mark your calendars!
On September 12, we open the global dialogue on understanding what energy truly is and how to reframe our understanding of life itself through the lens of energetic patterning.
Love to see ya'll there.
Mark your calendars!
On September 12, we open the global dialogue on understanding what energy truly is and how to reframe our understanding of life itself through the lens of energetic patterning.
Love to see ya'll there.
August 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
What is energy? A force, a feeling, a pattern of life?
Mark your calendars!
On September 12, we open the global dialogue on understanding what energy truly is and how to reframe our understanding of life itself through the lens of energetic patterning.
Love to see ya'll there.
Mark your calendars!
On September 12, we open the global dialogue on understanding what energy truly is and how to reframe our understanding of life itself through the lens of energetic patterning.
Love to see ya'll there.
New paper from our lab in #CellPress!
The human brain emits ultraweak light—photons from metabolic & electrical activity.
These emissions pass through the skull and shift with cognition, pointing to a biophysical layer where light may act as a non-invasive marker of brain function.
🔗 to paper ⬇️
The human brain emits ultraweak light—photons from metabolic & electrical activity.
These emissions pass through the skull and shift with cognition, pointing to a biophysical layer where light may act as a non-invasive marker of brain function.
🔗 to paper ⬇️
April 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New paper from our lab in #CellPress!
The human brain emits ultraweak light—photons from metabolic & electrical activity.
These emissions pass through the skull and shift with cognition, pointing to a biophysical layer where light may act as a non-invasive marker of brain function.
🔗 to paper ⬇️
The human brain emits ultraweak light—photons from metabolic & electrical activity.
These emissions pass through the skull and shift with cognition, pointing to a biophysical layer where light may act as a non-invasive marker of brain function.
🔗 to paper ⬇️
Reposted by Nirosha J. Murugan
Beginning in the 1970s, sleep psychologist Irene Tobler set out behavioral criteria to show that sleep is not unique to higher-order mammals — even cockroaches sleep. (From the archive) www.quantamagazine.org/sleep-evolve...
March 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Beginning in the 1970s, sleep psychologist Irene Tobler set out behavioral criteria to show that sleep is not unique to higher-order mammals — even cockroaches sleep. (From the archive) www.quantamagazine.org/sleep-evolve...
We've spent over a century building our biomolecular-genetic understanding of cell communication.
To move beyond incremental advances, we must embrace the #energetic dimension—where #biophysical signals shape cells, guide development & control fate.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc326mar
To move beyond incremental advances, we must embrace the #energetic dimension—where #biophysical signals shape cells, guide development & control fate.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc326mar
March 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We've spent over a century building our biomolecular-genetic understanding of cell communication.
To move beyond incremental advances, we must embrace the #energetic dimension—where #biophysical signals shape cells, guide development & control fate.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc326mar
To move beyond incremental advances, we must embrace the #energetic dimension—where #biophysical signals shape cells, guide development & control fate.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc326mar
Bioenergetic resistance can shape the health-disease continuum, yet energy remains the missing dimension in biomedicine.
My new #preprint w/ Martin Picard explores how modifiable energy flow drives adaptation, resilience & transformation.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2pcpuuw4
Would love to hear your thoughts!
My new #preprint w/ Martin Picard explores how modifiable energy flow drives adaptation, resilience & transformation.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2pcpuuw4
Would love to hear your thoughts!
March 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Bioenergetic resistance can shape the health-disease continuum, yet energy remains the missing dimension in biomedicine.
My new #preprint w/ Martin Picard explores how modifiable energy flow drives adaptation, resilience & transformation.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2pcpuuw4
Would love to hear your thoughts!
My new #preprint w/ Martin Picard explores how modifiable energy flow drives adaptation, resilience & transformation.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2pcpuuw4
Would love to hear your thoughts!