Can we just start a gofundme, we collect 1 billion dollars, then we just give it to trump as quid pro quo to end ICE raids? I think he would do it.

"Biopharma people are shockingly the most reserved" Shockingly, the people that know the most about the dangers of injecting random shit into your body are most averse to injecting random shit in your body.

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World

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weather forecast for freezing fog tonight.

I hope all the boomers that voted for Trump enjoy getting their medical care from robots in their sunset years.

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration

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They said there would be wind. I came for the wind.

This is the kind of thing that makes me want to go back to academia. The future of experiments is incredible. Just some ideas: #biotech #AI

Evo: DNA foundation modeling from molecular to genome scale | Arc Institute

Introducing Evo, a biological foundation model that generalizes across the fundamental languages of biology: DNA, RNA and proteins. Evo is capable of both prediction tasks, and generative design from ...

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Ultimately, will people tolerate being given a diagnosis by an AI? I'm not sure. #ai-future

There are a bunch of kids going down the street trick or treating and a car went past real slow blaring the Halloween theme song. It was fucking awesome. 🎃👻

The enshitification continues. I'm not even a Conservative, I just think it is fucking stupid to remove a gun from a picture when the 27 movies are just two hours of guns. There is a person in this world that gets paid - probably a shit ton of money - to make these meaningless decisions.

Amazon/MGM removes all guns from James Bond digital posters on Prime

007 is without his Walther PPK on the latest digital posters featured on Prime Video for the James Bond series.

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Here is a clue, make anything other than a fucking IPA.

Craft Breweries Struggle as Sales and Appetites Wane

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Our work exploring a new explanation for the regulation of Hoxd genes and the #fin-to-limb transition. 🧪 It was an absolute joy working on this w/ @aurhin.bsky.social and @homeobox.bsky.social @denisduboule.bsky.social @neilshubin.bsky.social #evo-devo #InHoxWeTrust

How Did Hands Evolve? The Answer Is Behind You.

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There is a lot of concern about leaked genetic data, but what I wonder is, can a "reputable" legal entity like a health insurance company use this information? Or the government? Wouldn't the chain of custody be unreliable? #genetic #privacy

The precarious future of consumer genetic privacy

Congress and other lawmakers must act to robustly protect direct-to-consumer genetic data and biospecimens into the future

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Join this year's CSH Asia Systems Biology of Gene Regulation & Genome Editing meeting in beautiful Suzhou, China, Oct 20-24. Let's bring the international communities together! Abstract deadline Sept 19! Infos and registration at csh-asia.org?content/2767. Please repost!

"the quest for drug targets have meanwhile reduced much of cancer research from a scholarly biological discipline to a transactional operation concerned more with cataloguing molecular alterations and finding associations, than with understanding fundamental principles using formal theory." Agreed.

The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer

Genome sequencing results and single-cell transcriptomics continue to produce findings that challenge the idea that cancer is purely a ‘genetic disease’. This Essay delves into cancer omics data that ...

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Charlie Kirk is dead by assassination. This political violence needs to stop. Things will only continue to get worse. I didn't like him but no one should be killed for their beliefs and speaking them aloud.

Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk shot dead at Utah event

Kirk, an activist and the founder of conservative student group Turning Point USA, played a key role in driving youth support for Trump in November.

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Euchromatin hopping explains how some enhancers seem to initiate the formation of active regulatory landscapes, and why some/many enhancer deletions don't affect transcription quantity; there are driver and passenger enhancers. #chromatin #enhancers #generegulation

Enhancers mediate euchromatin hopping at chromatin contact points

Enhancer-mediated gene activation involves the recruitment of chromatin modifiers and RNA polymerase to target promoters, but it is unknown if enhancers influence chromatin beyond their target genes. ...

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As a former #evo-devo academic that moved to industry, I can say that people with evolutionary backgrounds are very employable in #biotech. In fact, they tend to do better than people trained in more narrow topics like cell biology. Folks doing genome evo, please come to industry. We need you.

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We don't structure our programs to reflect this, but in reality faculty is the alternative career path, not the default.

#DBfeature Epithelial and mesenchymal compartments of the developing bladder and urethra display spatially distinct gene expression patterns by Baraiya, D. H., Kavya, T. T., Mandal, A., Chakraborty, S., Sathish, N., Francis, C. M. R., & Joseph tiom33.short.gy/DB520,155-170

who will republicans blame for their problems when govt no longer exists?

@smpowers.bsky.social I found you!

Wouldn’t a sufficiently complex system stochastically produce regions of greater complexity?

We cut off all foreign aid, stranded 10k people, and saved 1 #%$%#&$ % of the annual budget. Awesome. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

Trump Officials to Put Almost All U.S.A.I.D. Workers on Leave

Most employees overseas have been told to return to the U.S. Democrats have denounced recent moves to shrink the agency as an illegal power grab.

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Made a biotech founders starter pack, DM me to be added! go.bsky.app/LWm8uPE

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Can someone please train some AI on large biological datasets like this, integrate with zfin database, and let me query it? #science #zfin www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...