The parents of a three-year-old boy born with a devastating, life-limiting genetic condition say they are now excited for his future after he received a revolutionary stem cell gene therapy treatment developed by researchers at the University of Manchester. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy

Oliver has an inherited condition called Hunter syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.

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2 positions up for grabs in the Buckley lab - join us for some fun with optogenetics, zebrafish, neural tubes, biomechanics and cake

#spotLights hits episode 10! 🙌 @jontytownson.bsky.social talks to Helena Crellin (@buckleylab.bsky.social) about her #preprint introducing an optogenetic approach to study "how forces are propagated through complex tissues during development" in #zebrafish 🧠🐟 Listen below! 🎧 🎙️ youtu.be/6uce4whDt2M

spotLights Ep 10: preLights in conversation with Helena Crellin

YouTube video by The Company of Biologists

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Happy to share our new paper about working part-time in academia. We hope it can help to get the conversation going about this important aspect of EDI and research culture elifesciences.org/articles/106... @elife.bsky.social @emiliapsantos.bsky.social @englishse.bsky.social @hammofish.bsky.social

Point of View: To be, or not to be, part-time in academia

Part-time working can be beneficial for individual academics, and also for academia as a whole.

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Still working on it, but now we are on bluesky I want to share our current preprint with you on"Local optogenetic NMYII activation within the zebrafish neural rod results in long range, asymmetric force propagation". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...