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will-r-taylor.bsky.social

Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Toledo. Engaged in undergraduate education, including hands-on research. Focused on cancer, cell cycle, mitosis, ferroptosis, and anti-cancer drug discovery.

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I swear my nerves about as fragile as an isopropanol pellet.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

SS reviewing my grant scheduled to meet March 20. Yesterday saw ERA update with new roster document. But it still feels kinda like

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I know it’s true for all last-minute firings, but for NIH I have a good sense of what the collateral impacts are. Some staff work in labs, clinics, the hospital, with important technical, service, and support roles. It’s team-based work with a long time horizon and investment. Now broken apart.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

If you are wondering how NIH affects discoveries in medicine here is one measure. Cumulative number of Nobel prizes in medicine by country by year. people.idsia.ch/~juergen/nob...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

somehow between noon and six today I have eight hours of meetings.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Following @peiferlabunc.bsky.social lead (and borrowing some of his language 😉), I sent a letter to our local newspaper, which was published today. Thanks for the inspiration Mark! www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

submitted 43 days ago • 22 comments

Sometimes when you walk around the lab mumbling "there is no frickin way this is going to work" you are correct.

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They’ve gotten into NIH. They could start cutting off individual grants now if you don’t agree with Musk’s agenda. This can be stopped - if not science as we know it is done. Only what Musk wants studied will get studied

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Now to solve the mystery of why the mini plasmid preps made two days ago are 500 uL...

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I am still awestruck by the fact that I sent a little tube in the mail and a company ran 10 million sequencing reactions basically for the cost of dinner and a movie.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Review report back. Looks like I need to run a western blot. God help us.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Some days I just want to shrink myself down so that I can walk right into the endoplasmic reticulum and see what's going on.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Image from a project we are currently completing. When these KT1 leukemic cells are arrested in mitosis, they become elongated. In this cell, the spindle is asymmetrical localized.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments