Scientific diagram showing the alphaKL. Left panels shows various atomic force microscope images of structures built using the motif, while the right panel shows a computer rendering of the motif.

In addition to carrying genetic data, DNA and RNA can also be designed to fold into 'molecular breadboards' with nanometer addressability. To enable tightly-packed RNA origami, we developed a new motif, the αKL, which we're excited to share in our preprint!🧬🧪 1/🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧬💻We are hiring!
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Congrats!

This is happening today! If you are postdoc AND in NYC (even if you are from non-NYC institutions), you should join. It's always a good time at NYC postdoc night science.

#internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience #eacr #womeninscience | Johanna Joyce Today is the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience - a moment to recognise and celebrate women across all of the #EACR community 🙌 From Board members working together across Europe, to the dedic...

Today is the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience - celebrating women across our @helloeacr.bsky.social community 🙌

From Board members across Europe to the #EACR HQ team and the scientists we serve worldwide, women play a central role in advancing cancer research every day

#WomeninScience 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Just let creative people create 🤷‍♂️

Congrats! 🎉

"Discussion: This positive response in the treatment group may be attributed to the increased Coca Cola consumption in mice that took Wegovy pills based on the hypothesis generated by ChatGPT."

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.

My quote of the day

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio

Have a safe trip!

a white cat is laying on its back with the words gimme gimme written above it ALT: a white cat is laying on its back with the words gimme gimme written above it

PhD students/postdocs:

🧪🧬 You can now play Minecraft with DNA nanotechnology! In our latest preprint we introduce DNA polycubes platform: A modeling driven system, where we use SAT-solvers+multiscale simulations to design 3D finite-size structures that assemble in high yield
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

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Congrats to all the authors! It's really cool to see that DNA-PAINT keeps improving 👀

Dynamic Binder Exchange Improves Protein Labeling Efficiency in DNA‐PAINT up to 15‐Fold Dynamic Binder Exchange (DyBE) leverages transient binder–target interactions to enhance labeling efficiency by up to 15-fold in super-resolution microscopy. DyBE maps nanoscale receptor tyrosine kin...

Up to 15-fold improvement in protein labeling for DNA-PAINT 🧬🔬. We are excited to present our latest work published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

DNA origami vaccines program antigen-focused germinal centers Priming rare subdominant precursor B cells in germinal centers (GCs) is a central goal of vaccination to generate broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV. Multivalent immunogen display on ...

Another big step for the DNA nanotech field from the Irvine and Bathe labs! DNA origami-based vaccine platform elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV with less non-specific, scaffold-targeting antibodies compared to protein-based vaccine platform 🧬🦠👀

www.science.org/eprint/MJ7WF...

A Night Science Chapter for Postdocs: Building Creative Thinking Skills with Kelsey Monson, PhD YouTube video by Night Science Institute

What a treat to be interviewed by Dr. @oliverbogler.bsky.social of the @night-science-inst.bsky.social to discuss our NYC Postdoc Chapter!

I chat a bit about my career and research, and give some tips and tricks for starting your own Night Science chapter!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yeO...

Of course, bacteria have to do something crazy as well because of crazy phages ⚔️🧬🦠👀

This is so cool 🤯

Rare-earth elements mining phages? Phages keep giving 💎🧬🦠😭

It’s a lonely job, leading a research group (professor, principal investigator, group leader – whatever you call it). You talk all day with everyone, but you’re mostly alone with the doubts and risks of the biggest decisions.
Does it have to be though??
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Don't judge me Itai: I watched this Youtube video while exercising this morning, and I learned what you do in your Day Science for the first time (very cool!) 😂

What is a discovery? Why are discoveries so difficult to make? How does Night Science & Day Science capture the process of discovery? What are a few Night Science tools? Can we change the culture of science?
Check out my talk at the DAI Science Festival!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9p0...

Sustained in situ protein production and release in the mammalian gut by an engineered bacteriophage - Nature Biotechnology Biologics are delivered to the gut using phage that infects resident commensal bacteria.

Sustained in situ protein production and release in the mammalian gut by an engineered bacteriophage www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's not exactly the same, but I try to draw parallels between computer and human languages. There are decent AI translators out there, but it's hard to connect with people when I can't actually speak the language. I think there is something equivalent in coding. I acknowledge the sense of loss 😞

It's that time of the decade folks. Buckle up for the new installment of the "Hallmarks of cancer" series by Douglas Hanahan 🧐

Congrats to all the authors! I always appreciate new synthetic biology tools for engineering bacteria beyond E. coli (and I love Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron!) 🙏

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron walks into a gut and...

senses and reports on the increased osmolality of the gut associated with inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease through glowing, fluorescent 💩🦠🧬

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

Now the conventional wisdom is that we all win by not applying at all, right? 🙂🙃🫠

www.nature.com/articles/d41...