Ratio of keratin 14 & 15 proteins influences differentiation vs division by skin progenitor cells
📷 Catherine J. Redmond et al Coulombe lab
University of Michigan Medical School in
@jcb.org
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with
@antdlewis.bsky.social
If you’ve missed out on Kidlit Haha Week you can still catch up and enter the book giveaways until tomorrow!
Catch up HERE 👇
www.brittanypomales.com/blog/
Brain organoids used to screen drug candidates for genetic mitochondrial disease Leigh Syndrome identifies utility of sildenafil (Viagra)
📷 Annika Zink, Dao-Fu Dai, Annika Wittich et al @aleprigio.bsky.social
@hhu.de in @cp-cell.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... +
@rooph.bsky.social
CRISPR edit to activate PPARGC1A gene boosts mitochondria improving cardiac muscle repair after heart attack
📷 Mario Escobar & Saad Malik, et al @riceuniversity.bsky.social; @bcmhouston.bsky.social re paper in @moltherapy.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026/4/3 with @rooph.bsky.social
Today! 💙❤️
Related: I’m looking for an illustrator with a textured, painterly, elevated, serious, realistic, literary style to illustrate a lovely sports themed jacketed, hardcover picture book.
Feel free to respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
Quick reminder to stick out your chin and grin because…
Kidlit Haha Week starts TOMORROW!
Hear hear!
Amazing! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this event!
Good luck everyone!!
😂
Mini stomach in a dish!
A human organoid for modeling spinal cord injury.
Epidermal rete ridges correlate with less hairy skin but what's the relationship? This study details how rete ridges aren't directly coupled to hair development
@leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscopy
📷 Sean M. Thompson et al @pullman.wsu.edu in
@nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
NEK7 protein–'traffic warden' in liver cells keeping energy flowing in the right direction, warding off fibrosis-causing oxidation
📷 Zhenzhen Sun & Le Sun et al Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, in @natcomms.nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
@antdlewis.bsky.social
Mechanisms to overcome instability in early embryo cell division differ in zebrafish & fruit flies: species-specific mechanisms both orchestrated by cytoskeletal microtubules
📹 Melissa Rinaldin et al, @brugueslab.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social in @nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
Fruit fly study finds enzymes Hip14 & Patsas limit lysosome formation & fusion so protecting against Huntington's disease-like symptoms
📷 Győző Szenci et al, Eötvös Loránd University, in
@plos.org Genetics
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with
@antdlewis.bsky.social
Human liver tissue with & without fibrosis reconstructed at cell level in 3D - insights for understanding liver disease & how to treat it
📹 Wesley B. Fabyan & Chelsea L. Fortin et al @kellystevens.bsky.social lab University of Washington
in @science.org Advances
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
Transfer of mitochondria from glia to adjacent sensory neurons in dorsal root ganglia – protects against nerve degeneration & pain
📷 Jing Xu et al @dukehealth.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social in @nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
Wrap Map: Mouse life-time brain-wide map of myelin-producing cells and myelin density in health and disease
📹 Yu Kang T. Xu, Abigail Bush & Ephraim Musheyev et al Bergles Lab @jhu.edu in @cellpress.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
Hear, hear!!
It’s #kidlitartpostcardday ! Optimism is in the air and it smells sweet. Have a good one #kidlit peeps!
Interaction between candida fungus & some strains of bacterium E.faecalis makes infections more damaging
📷 Mario Kapitan et al Ilse D. Jacobsen Lab, @leibniz-hki.de in
@pnas.org
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with
@rooph.bsky.social
Evolving towards antibiotic resistance bacteria pass DNA sequences between each other via protrusions called pili which also enhance biofilm formation
📷 James B. Winans et al Nadell lab, @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with
@rooph.bsky.social
Announcement in Publisher's Weekly, Feb 24th. #FliffPB #FliffTheFluff #picturebook #scbwi #authorillustrator #TheLittlePress
Picture book author Bess Kalb on silencing, #bookbanning. A must watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgeE...
I also had two rejections from agents today! These are the ups and downs of kidlit, condensed for your convenience.
Hooray hooray!! Fliff is on his way!!
#debutpicturebook #FLIFF #author-illustrator
Genome-wide screen using CRISPR identifies 100s of genes important for neuronal development
📷 Galya Monderer-Rothkoff re paper A Amelan, S Collins, N Damseh et al bsky.app/profile/sagi...
& Binnaz Yalcin lab in @natneuro.nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with
@rooph.bsky.social
Attention all #kidlit friends: This Thursday, February 5th, is #KidLitArtPostcard day! Get your art ready and I'll see you on the timeline! www.ginaperry.com/postcard
Aw thanks, Rachel!
