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An unusual deal between two pharmaceutical rivals will ramp up the pace of vaccination in the U.S. Merck & Co. will help manufacture the new Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine in an arrangement brokered by the White House.

Pandemic Silver linings: greater faith in science and its role in society (3 vaccines were developed in less than 1 year!); enhanced collaborations between pharma companies; and one would hope greater emphathy among humans...

Make your own list of women developmental biologists throughout March.

International Women's Day! To many women colleagues, to many senior and junior women scientists, I say "Let's keep going"! I want to celebrate Zena Werb and Nicole Le Douarin!

Missing Zena, an inspiration, a giant of science, and an amazing human being. In June 2020 UCSF lost a voice that will not be easy to replace...

'The Art of Being Happy' (Schopenhauer), rule No 51: Always consider that your manuscript has flaws; rejection then comes as a relief.

Researchers re-create key human embryo stage in lab sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/r…

Scientists Grow Mouse Embryos in a Mechanical Womb nytimes.com/2021/03/17/hea…

Fascinating... the powers of sequencing genomes of different species... A towering genome: Experimentally validated adaptations to high blood pressure and extreme stature in the giraffe advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/12/e…

3D rendering of the Sistine Chapel: use your finger or mouse and see the details! No wonder Michelangelo fell into a depression (nervous breakdown) while painting it. It took four years - less than a mouse project... "La terribilita' di questa impresa" vatican.va/various/cappel…

Interesting paper in Plos Genetics: mutation within the RAR related orphan receptor B gene underpins the ability of some rabbits (Sauteur Rabbits) to jump and walk on their head...

Human–chimpanzee fused cells reveal cis-regulatory divergence underlying skeletal evolution www-nature-com.ucsf.idm.oclc.org/articles/s4158…

Many congratulations to Jeff @Bush_lab for promotion to full professor UC San Francisco! Jeff was our first recruit into the Craniofacial Program and has done fantastic work as a PI- we're all very proud of him and his research group.

A Construction Crew Working at the Uffizi in Florence Accidentally Uncovered Two Long-Lost Renaissance-Era Frescoes news.artnet.com/art-world/uffi…

At the end of Camus' The Plague, the plague subsides and the citizenry returns to its pre-outbreak behavior as if nothing had happened. I'm curious to learn what doesn't return to status quo ante post-pandemic. What don't you want to return to baseline?

via The New York Times nytimes.com/2021/05/30/art…

I am back after many months - too much to do, too little time. Happy New Year Everybody! We are seeking motivated & wonderful postdocs to join our lab. Exciting projects, generous new NIH funding - we need new blood! See link below for more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1kdpYOO…

upliftingathletes.org/young-investig… Maurizio Risolino, Instructor in our lab, won one of the "Uplifting Athletes Young Investigator Awards" for rare diseases for his work on Human Congenital Asplenia! Way to go Maurizio!