The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has severed ties with its longtime leader, Nobel-winning biologist James D. Watson, saying his comments on race, genes and intelligence in a recent documentary are “unsubstantiated and reckless” nyti.ms/2FqzsV2

Cancer #microbiome atlas: Anders B. Dohlman, PhD &Co present database of decontaminated tissue-resident #microbial profiles of #Cancer Genome Atlas GI #cancer tissues. Matching to TCGA tissues allows ID of prognostic species & pan-cancer of host-microbe analyses cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Out today in Cell: Not just bacteria, but also fungi are found in human tumors! This could force us to rethink what we know about the microbiome‘s role in cancer. doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

In the latest issue! A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors dlvr.it/SZKb3H

Microbial #cultures and shotgun/ITS #sequencing enabled two independent teams at Cornell University, Duke University , UC San Diego School of Medicine and Weizmann Institute to confirm #fungal signatures associated with diverse #cancers. genengnews.com/topics/cancer/…

We’re proud to announce the campaign to unionize non-tenure-track faculty and researchers within Harvard University—we are Harvard Academic Workers - UAW! We unite ~6000 workers across all 12 Harvard schools. 🧵

Too many talented young scientists are turned away from academic careers because of low compensation and high cost of living. This problem is especially acute for underrepresented groups and disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Congrats to ElinavLab and Dr. Robert Jenq's lab for this very interesting and important work!

Congrats to Niranjan Nagarajan, Cedric C.S. Tan, and Minghao Chia on a very important negative result! This may finally put the dubious "blood microbiome" hypothesis to bed. However, the evidence for transient bacteriemia (esp. F. nucleatum!) in healthy individuals is very intriguing!

It is such an honor to receive this award. Looking forward to working with you all!

Out Now! The multi-kingdom cancer microbiome bit.ly/45X6F6r #CancerResearch #Microbiome #TumorMicrobes

Today in Nature Microbiology, we discuss the past, present, and future of the "cancer microbiome" -- especially timely in light of recent analyses by Abraham and Yuchen Ge, who offer a more rigorous path forward for understanding tumor microbiomes (and the lack thereof!).

160 profiles celebrating the global achievements of amazing women in science, technology, engineering & maths ow.ly/glA4309Hvkx

Meanwhile, the GOP seeks to restrict healthcare options of this very group... x.com/NPR/status/845…

This is straight up horrifying x.com/bradplumer/sta…

FDA opens floodgate for direct to consumer disease risk testing nyti.ms/2o2EwEj

The proportion of scientists aged 55 and older has nearly doubled since 1993. nyti.ms/2onrS1d

A minimum of 200,000+ marching in #climatemarch in DC.

I mean I guess it's nice we're all admitting we're just dust motes on the turbulent wind of stochastic noise washingtonpost.com/local/virginia…

Great work Simon Koplev x.com/avimaayan/stat…