Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup - Nature The discovery of an unusual protist named Solarion arienae, which has a mitochondrial genome with some intriguing features, provides insight into the early radiation of eukaryotic groups.

🧪 Researchers just discovered a completely unknown single-celled organism that doesn’t belong to any known major group of life - hiding in plain sight in a lab culture!! 🔬

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Talk Science To Me on Instagram: "Welcome to a new series of interviews with scientists ✨🔬- this time featuring Dr. Sarah Knox! 👩‍🔬 🔬As a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr.... 2 likes, 0 comments - talkscience_official on November 21, 2025: "Welcome to a new series of interviews with scientists ✨🔬- this time featuring Dr. Sarah Knox! 👩‍🔬 🔬As a Professor at the University o...

🧪 Hey y'all! We are excited to start another interview series! Please welcome dr. Sarah Knox - a principal investigator and CEO of a biotech company! Check out our Instagram and TikTok to find out what we discussed this time! 🔥

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Where cellular garbage needs to be removed, there’s always a macrophage happy to take care of it. And where there’s a macrophage… there’s Magda from Immuknowledge, happy to tell you some immunology! 💙

This week, for the tenth Immuknowledge celebration, we dive into microglia–astrocyte crosstalk 🧠

✨ It’s Stem Press time! 🧬 Everyone’s been yapping about regeneration — but this time, YAP1 is actually doing the talking. ⚙️ A new study found that the ability to regrow tissue isn’t just about gene... TikTok video by Talk Science To Me

🧪 It's a Stem Press appreciation week! This time Karol is yapping about... YAP1 protein and how it can "yap" to the nucleus to initiate the regeneration! You cannot miss this one 💥

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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...

🩸 Mice that get a period? It’s real!

🧬 Scientists have engineered lab mice that can simulate menstruation-like bleeding!

This breakthrough opens new pathways for studying menstrual health, disorders like endometriosis, and more! 🧪

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Decoding human olfaction by high heterologous expression of odorant receptors detecting signature odorants Emter et al. improve in vitro expression of odorant receptors (OR) by engineering the C-terminal domain. With a library of engineered ORs, they discover ORs for signature odorants, which they relate t...

🤔A new study challenges a Nobel Prize idea?

🧫Scientists engineered human olfactory receptors and revealed that certain odors can be recognized by single, highly specific receptors, challenging the view that odor perception always relies on broad combinatorial patterns!

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Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

🧪 New potential therapy for treating Alzheimer’s Disease? Scientists significantly resolved AD's phenotype in mice by hijacking blood-brain barrier transport mechanics to preserve and reactivate its clearing function!

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Regulatory T cells are definitely the stars this week! ✨ First, winning the Nobel Prize, and now starring in the newest episode of Immuknowledge!

🧬What if we told you that some of the things we inherit don’t actually come from our genes? 👀 Don’t miss this episode to find out more!

Tune into Salk's podcast, Beyond Lab Walls, and meet Tony Hunter, the famed cancer biologist, who just celebrated 50 years at the Institute.

His persistent curiosity has fueled discovery and lifesaving medications, and continues to shape the future of cancer research.

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The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (2025) FULL SHOW YouTube video by Improbable Research

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We promise you - it’s a lot of fun! 🎉

Sounds crazy? But it works! 🐄🦓 Researchers in Japan discovered that thanks to zebra-like stripes, painted cows were bitten by significantly fewer flies. The bold patterns seem to confuse insects, offering a simple way to protect cattle without pesticides.

✨ In case you missed it – the Ig Nobel Prizes 2025 have already been awarded!

🏆And the main prize in Biology goes to…Scientists who painted cows like zebras!

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🧪 New episode of #StemPress just dropped! This time we are discussing why mammals cannot regenerate limbs 🐭 Recent discovery shows that the secret isn't in the DNA sequence, but... our environment? Check out the new video to learn more! #oxygen #chromatin #regeneration

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💡Don’t miss the latest part of our interview with Prof. Austad, where he shares some valuable tips!

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We’re curious to hear your perspective: what approaches do you find most effective for explaining science to non-specialists?

📊 Presenting data is an inevitable yet demanding part of being a scientist. But perhaps even harder is explaining science to those who are not scientists. So how can complex research be conveyed in a way that non-scientists can easily understand? 🤔

Perseverance Sample Shows Evidence of Ancient Martian Microbial Metabolisms - Eos A sample collected in July 2024 by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may be “the closest we've actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars,” according to Nicky Fox, the science head of NASA.

A Mars sample collected in 2024 may be “the closest we’ve actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars,” according to NASA officials 🧪

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🧪For a long time, researchers believed that when someone lost a limb, the brain would reorganize and let nearby areas take over.

But new findings show that the brain’s map of the missing hand remains intact for years!

🔗Full article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stable cortical body maps before and after arm amputation - Nature Neuroscience Longitudinal neuroimaging of participants with planned arm amputations shows that the cortical body map remains stable after amputation, with no evidence of hand or face reorganization, thus challengi...

🦵We’re sure you’ve heard of phantom limbs - the sensation or pain felt in a limb that has been amputated. What if we told you that….
…the brain never forgets the missing limb?🧠

🧪 Are you ready for a new portion of the interview with prof. Austad? We introduced him some time ago and we're back with more! Check out what we discussed this time ⬇️

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Intercellular nanotube-mediated mitochondrial transfer enhances T cell metabolic fitness and antitumor efficacy Transfer of mitochondria via nanotubes from bone marrow stem cells to CD8+ T cells augments cellular metabolism, empowering engineered T cells and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes to counteract exhausti...

2/2 📄 Article: Baldwin et al. Intercellular nanotube-mediated mitochondrial transfer enhances T cell metabolic fitness and antitumor efficacy, Cell (2024)
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1/2 🎥 In this episode, Magda explains how bone marrow stromal cells transfer their mitochondria to CD8⁺ T cells through nanotubes. These donated mitochondria give T cells a serious boost!

But what exactly do they do? You’ll find out in the video on our TikTok and Instagram: @talkscience_official

Are you ready for a brand-new Immuknowledge episode? 🤓

This time, the story is about an unexpected ally in the fight against cancer. 🦀 Don’t miss it - today, we get revenge! ⚔️

Dr. Martin A. Schwartz from Yale University School of Medicine shares which aspects of being a scientist he finds most rewarding. 🔬✨ He also emphasizes that what fulfills him may not be the same for everyone - finding the path that’s right for you is what truly matters!

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...

💡An incredibly thoughtful piece you won’t want to miss: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

📄 DOI: “Chemical reprogramming of human blood cells to pluripotent stem cells” [10.1016/j.stem.2025.07.003](doi.org/10.1016/j.st...)

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🤞🏻 The resulting hCiPSCs exhibited full pluripotency, trilineage differentiation potential, and minimal residual epigenetic memory — advancing the prospect of scalable, non-invasive, and clinically adaptable iPSC production.