Finally doubly pfizered today! It’s a good occasion to re-listen to this interview with Dr. Katalin Kariko Katalin Kariko . Science is often about resilience as much as about the high impact papers we publish open.spotify.com/episode/2xOFCc…

AI firm DeepMind puts database of the building blocks of life online theguardian.com/technology/202…

Recent progress in developing and testing plant-made vaccines has revived interest in plant-produced pharmaceuticals, including edible drugs, for human use. Read more in a new #SciencePerspective. fcld.ly/eqhhgqg

From the New York Times magazine (July 20) featuring the work of former EIC Cathie Martin & others. "Learning to Love G.M.O.s. Overblown fears have turned the public against genetically modified food. But the potential benefits have never been greater." nytimes.com/2021/07/20/mag…

A Nature Communications paper reports that two doses of vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine induce more robust immune responses to the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) and B.1.351 (Beta) SARS-CoV-2 lineages than does natural infection. go.nature.com/37MIed3

People may have worked hard to save a deposit for a first home in the past, but the reality is house prices have massively outstripped wage growth since 2000.

Free IP licenses to use Wageningen U&R CRISPR gene editing technology will be provided for non-profit crop-improvement applications. This is a great step towards changing the CRISPR IP landscape, leading to benefit for farmers and consumers in low-income countries bit.ly/3yTlZgx

Netflix's remake of The Guilty is almost exactly the same as the 2018 original. So why is it so much worse? scam likely explains why the ending is exactly the kind of Americanization you hate to see: bit.ly/3B0RMOl

Jabs from Novavax and other biotech firms are coming. Scientists say they have a lot to offer. nature.com/articles/d4158…

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… COVID-19 has shown the world that “knowing what to do” does not ensure “doing what we know.” Science Magazine

Did a mega drought topple empires 4,200 years ago? nature.com/articles/d4158…

An ancient link between heart and head — as seen in the blobby, headless sea squirt nature.com/articles/d4158…

If you are interested in what I hope will be an exciting adventure in mechanistic biology - let me know until the end of March.

A thumping defeat for Russia at the UN General Assembly

‘I thought I had forgotten this horror’: Ukrainian scientists stand in defiance nature.com/articles/d4158…

Editorial: "Crop pharming" rdcu.be/cJC1C "The idea of adapting plants to produce vaccines is almost as old as the genetic engineering of plants itself. Recent clinical trials suggest that it is an approach whose time may finally have come." See below for some context.

Prediction of peptide mass spectral libraries with machine learning go.nature.com/3Tsnw8W

REVIEW: Burning questions for a warming and changing world: 15 unknowns in plant abiotic stress Christa Testerink Hilde Nelissen ASPB doi.org/10.1093/plcell… #PlantSci

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

Please help spreading! Looking for a postdoctoral fellow to implement and develop single-cell mass spectrometry-based proteomics in my lab! career012.successfactors.eu/career?company….