He is like a slug….

Online Now: Cryo-EM reveals open and closed Asgard chromatin assemblies dlvr.it/TNwxln

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

It's pretty incredible how quickly a tornado can develop. The first photo, taken at 5:35 PM, shows a slowly rotating lowering of clouds attached to a boundary. Just five minutes later in the second photo, the tornado touched down about half a mile to my west, with debris lofted.

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

Looks like the Moon just got a new (decent-sized) crater! Be interesting to see how the area shows up in LRO images.

The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬

Finally got around to reading the "Ballistic Microscopy" paper, and it is really incredible. The paper opens with a compelling idea; one I hadn’t explicitly thought about before: “Light and electron microscopy utilizes interactions of either photons or electrons with matter to

AI ppl: we basically solved bio with the thinking sands Bio ppl: after decades of lab toil, we solved how to stably express GFP in stem cells

Is science too obsessed with metrics, large-scale projects & “blockbuster” outputs? Desai & Jun argued that preserving the "auteur" spirit of individual creativity, exploration and risk-taking is essential for maintaining the creativity that drew us into science in the 1st place.

Introducing Molview - the ipython/jupyter widget version of nano-protein-viewer🔍:

I’m not sure what it says about the state of U.S. transit, but only five states move more people by rail each day than the people mover at Atlanta’s airport. By my estimate, it’s one of the most efficient rail systems in the world.

"spinning protein fibers from yeast biomass for textiles" Impact of biomanufacturing protein fibers on achieving sustainable development pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

遺伝物質がDNAであることの発見 19世紀半ば：遺伝子という概念の発見 　　　　　　DNAという物質の発見 1920年―1940年：遺伝物質＝DNA（肺炎球菌） 1952年：遺伝物質＝DNA（バクテリオファージ）決着 1953年：DNA構造の解明 1960年台：コドンの解読、セントラルドグマ (大学１年生向け講義資料から)

super cool new work from Enoch Yeung at UCSB UCSB they image and record the dynamic, time-evolving superhelicity generated from single molecule transcription events in DNA. They discovered that topologically unconstrained DNA molecules (DNA that is free to rotate about the

Comparative analysis of single-stranded and non-canonical DNA formation in human and other ape cells with telomere-to-telomere genomes. #NonCanonicalDNA #NonB_DNA #GenomeRegulation bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Shoutout to William Playfair, the Scottish engineer who: - Invented the line chart. - Invented the bar chart. - Was the first to color-code a chart. - Invented the pie chart (but let's just ignore that; pie charts are an abomination.) When he wasn't busy inventing charts,

When I was a graduate student at Caltech, I found one of the first left-handed forms of DNA (Nature 1980). Dozens of "experts" told me it was "impossible". Some with Nobel Prizes. They did everything they could to delay such an important discovery! 🤡 Even Francis Crick. Since

Not everyone knows that a way to add DNA to a plant seed is with a "gene gun." It literally blasts the gene into the seed. I like the one from Bio-Rad because they made it pistol-shaped. (there is a helium tank for pressure and quite a bit other stuff you dont see)

🦣🧬🦣 🤯💥 We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell Cell Press cell.com/cell/fulltext/… If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below: #mammoth #RNA #DNA #Pleistocene