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Franco Lab @UCLA Exploring how to program dynamic behaviors in biological self-assembly 💡✨ We’re harnessing DNA and RNA to build smart, adaptive materials 🔬🧬 #Biomaterials #DNA #RNA
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2025 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course in Synthetic Biology - apply! Deadline: April 14, 2025 Financial Aid: Stipend awards are available. Notifications: Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2025. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

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Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London 🎉🚨🇬🇧🫖 If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Michael Faraday was the father of electromagnetism. He changed our world experiment by experiment, without any formal education, and without ever writing equations - now you can check out his original "lab books"! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Seriously. If you are that good you shouldn’t have to work so much. Get over this BS bro culture.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, nerds, buckle in! It's time for some SCIENCE. Back in the late 1960s, a scientist got some government funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Atomic Energy Commission to look for interesting bacteria living in extreme environments. 1/x

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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 83 days ago • 64 comments

Deeply concerned about NSF. They fired more people than they needed and now leadership is illegally reclassifying employees as probationary. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

How can complex dynamics emerge from phase-separated matter? 🤔 Simple chemical reactions can trigger periodic or chaotic behavior in dense phases! Cool simulations by Dino Osmanovic 💥 w/ support by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social #PhaseSeparation #Matter2Life journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

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1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

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Happy #Valentine's day with some colorful #DNA #condensates that decided to assemble into a heart ❤️ 💚 ❤️ 💚 ❤️ 💚

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🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨 Dose-response curves measure how cells react to inputs, but what about how long the input stays high? Our latest work shows that some circuits can flip the script of temporal dose: short stimuli can trigger sustained responses & vice versa! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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NIH to implement a 15% indirect cost rate. "This policy shall be applied to all current grants for go forward expenses from February 10, 2025 forward as well as for all new grants issued." Devastating for US scientific institutions. Am I understanding this right? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

submitted 121 days ago • 77 comments

#UCLA QCbio qcb.ucla.edu is looking for a new director! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10007 Please share

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Abstract submission for FNANO is now open! They’re due Feb 1! Join us at molecular programming’s annual celebration of design, interfaces and applications (and also skiing) 🧬 www.fnano.org

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The coolest thing about the @bluesky experiment? It shows that no social network is indispensable! 💡 When users have a real reason to make the switch, they can move together to better, more open platforms - happy to find so many colleagues here 🚀 #SocialMedia #AcademicSky #Xodus

submitted 168 days ago • 2 comments

To accelerate the X-odus, I created a DNA & RNA nanotech starter pack :) Comment if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/7LUeJ61

submitted 184 days ago • 29 comments

Started creating a synthetic biology starter pack. Still missing many so reply here if I forgot you or someone else. go.bsky.app/SjfpxTK #synbio

submitted 193 days ago • 73 comments

Exciting post doc opportunity: we are seeking a post doc to work with us and @ProfTomEllis on large DNA engineering in mammalian cells funded by @ChanZuckerberg. Come and join us at @ImperialChemEng! Apply at the link below: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

submitted 191 days ago • 1 comment

In silico analysis of metabolic burden effects on a multicellular integral controller https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.12.623154v1

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