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gertjanveenstra.bsky.social
Professor of Molecular Developmental Biology | Director Radboud Institute Molecular Life Sciences | DevBio, StemCells, Heart, Chromatin, SingleCell, Faith&Science https://veenstralab.nl
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Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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New study outlines a cardiac #differentiation roadmap, mapping cell states that mimic the human fetal heart. ow.ly/lCkh50V8o2w @isscr.org @cellpress.bsky.social @gairdnerawards.bsky.social @sickkidsvs.bsky.social

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Our latest work on stem cell-based modeling of human heart development is now out! Excited to see the outstanding and notable work of Rebecca Snabel with our collaborators Carla Cofiño Fabrés and Robert Passier in print. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

#CellPlasticity—the ability of cells to change their identity—is vital for tissue growth and repair. But when it goes unchecked, it can fuel #cancer. Our latest study examines how to block #LiverCancer by actively suppressing plasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CancerBiology

submitted 120 days ago • 8 comments

This thread ... LIFE OF PIs ... is being brought to you by one and only Buster Keaton ... I hope you will enjoy it. #LifeOfPI

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All you ever wanted to know about mollusks 🐙🦑🐚🐌 and then some ... 1800 pages of wonderful biology 😍 Arrived yesterday

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Is endothelium a type of epithelium? I am @icfortunato.bsky.social & I would like to discuss this with a short🧵 focused on cell-cell junctions, specifically adherens junctions.

submitted 146 days ago • 3 comments

Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

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Light-sheet image of a two-chambered embryonic #zebrafish heart. Credit to @noelresearchlab.bsky.social #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

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Interesting work by Jonathon Muncie-Vasic, Benoit Bruneau et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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SOX and POU are crucial Transcription Factors in animal development, believed to be innovations of this group. Here we find them in unicellular relatives of animals. And hold tight, you can use a choanoflagellate 🦠 SOX gene to make a full chimeric 🐁 ! Read more here 🧵: rdcu.be/d0dPN 1/6

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A mechanism for why durable weight loss is so difficult: epigenetic memory of fat cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 207 days ago • 18 comments

This is my first post on BSky, trying this after losing interest in Twitter/X and Mastodon not really catching on. Will mainly post about my core scientific interests: * Developmental Biology and EvoDevo: Heart development, Stem cells, Early embryonic development * Gene regulation, Chromatin

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