A drug originally developed for spinal cord injury may offer a fresh approach to treating #Alzheimers. In mouse studies, KCL-286 repaired dangerous DNA damage, reduced #Inflammation & targeted multiple disease-related pathways. @febsopenbio.bsky.social 👉 febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Repair of neuronal DNA damage in Alzheimer's disease by KCL-286. (A) Amyloid-β oligomers and plaques impair neuronal DNA repair pathways, leading to DNA double-strand breaks and glial activation. (B)....

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The 50th FEBS Congress started in the best way possible as I won the best oral presentation prize, sponsored by @febsopenbio.bsky.social in the YSF in Wageningen ! The science goes on in Maastricht up til Wednesday, you can find me at my poster (SP076) to discuss novel bacterial immunity systems !

That's a wrap on #FEBS2026! 👏 We're proud to have participated at another fantastic FEBS Congress, engaging with outstanding science and researchers from around the world. Thank you to everyone who contributed! We look forward to seeing you at the 51st FEBS Congress in Riga, Latvia! 👋

Congratulations once again to FEBS Open Bio Article Prize winner Klaudia Maruszczak, who will be presenting a speed talk at #FEBS2026 today! 🎉 Klaudia will be presenting her work on the structure of human TIM23 complex 🧬 Don't miss the opportunity to hear about it! See you there👏

Day 3 of #FEBS2026 is here! 🚀 One of today's highlights is the FEBS Open Bio Plenary Lecture, delivered by our Associate Editor, Alexander Wlodawer Join us in the Auditorium as Alex reflects on five decades of discovery and technological transformation in structural biology 🧬 See you there!👋

T-minus 1 day until #FEBS2026! 🚀 We're looking forward to 5 days of science, collaborations, and great conversations. If you're attending, be sure to join the FEBS Press Session on Sunday 5th July at 16:45PM 📍 See you in there! 👋

🚨 Join FEBS Open Bio TODAY at 3PM BST/ 4PM CEST for our FREE Cellular Senescence webinar! 🚨 Guest editor Dimitris Kletsas together with several of the contributing authors will discuss trending topics in Cellular Senescence research. Register, here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our (with @stanam.bsky.social) new review paper on the role of tunnelling nanotubes and intercellular organelle transport in cancer is out in @febsopenbio.bsky.social The peer-review experience was excellent: thorough and constructive and helped us to write a much better paper. I'm really happy!

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The cytoskeleton-mediated transport of mitochondria via tunnelling nanotubes restores respiration, increases ATP production, rescues cells from apoptosis, activates the AKT/mTOR signalling pathway, p....

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Congratulations to CMR PhD student, Wayne Du (supervised by @craigagoodman1.bsky.social & @pgregorevic.bsky.social), for being awarded the FEBS Open Bio Prize for Outstanding Poster at the 2026 New Directions in Biology and Disease of Skeletal Muscle Conference. @febsopenbio.bsky.social

Only two weeks to go until the FEBS Open Bio Cellular Senescence webinar! 📅 Date: 18 June 2026 🕓 Time: 3:00pm BST / 4:00pm CEST 🖱️ Where: Online, via Zoom 📚 Read the Special Issue, here: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/22115463... 💻 Sign up to the webinar for free, here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨Our June issue is out now This issue includes work from the on the use of tri-cultures to model Alzheimer's disease. Alongside work exploring chemotherapy resistance in bladder cancer. All articles in our June issue are available now Open Access. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/22115463...

@febsopenbio.bsky.social  otorga un Premio al mejor Poster y un Premio a la mejor Comunicación Oral, a un estudiante de doctorado o post-doc que presenten un trabajo no publicado en el #48congresosebbm ℹ️Envío de comunicaciones hasta el 31 de mayo https://f.mtr.cool/grxuoreqkc

We had an amazing time at #ViBioM2026 last week in Vilnius 🇱🇹🤝 Researchers from around the world shared insights on virus #metagenomics, #phylogeny, protein & RNA biology, and #ML approaches. Huge thanks to all organizers, helpers, and our sponsors (GoVilnius, Viruses/MDPI, @febsopenbio.bsky.social)!

✨ We're delighted to present our May "In the Limelight" Special Issue on Cellular Senescence✨ This issue explores the growing importance of cellular senescence and highlights the ongoing efforts to decode its complexity ➡️ Explore the full issue here: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/22115463...

🔬 Tiny cages that fight cancer? Meet MOFs. Here's what makes them exciting: 💊 Smarter drug delivery 🎯 Precision targeting 📸 Next-gen imaging ☀️ Light-activated therapy 🔗 febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ✏️Veronika Huntošová, Grigorii Rakhalskii and Miroslav Almáši

Interested in learning about cellular senescence have a look at work from Krystyna Mazan-Mamczarz, Eleanor J. Wind, Jixiang Leng and Myriam Gorospe at the National Institute on Ageing discussing the role of disrupted interorganelle communication in cellular senescence.

@febsopenbio.bsky.social  otorga un Premio al mejor Poster y un Premio a la mejor Comunicación Oral, a un estudiante de doctorado o post-doc que presenten un trabajo no publicado en el #48congresosebbm ℹ️Envío de comunicaciones hasta el 31 de mayo https://f.mtr.cool/tqyszwcnqa

Siblings in science—and proud of it! FEBS Open Bio is part of the FEBS Press family with @febsj.bsky.social, @febsletters.bsky.social, & @moloncology.bsky.social. Did you know: if a manuscript isn’t a fit at one of our sister journals, editors may offer authors the option to transfer it to us! 🔁

✨ Presenting our "In the Limelight" Special Issue ✨ This issue explores the challenges of plastic pollution in our world and the urgent need for more sustainable alternatives ♻️ ➡️ Check out the article highlights below and explore the full issue here: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/22115463...

Congratulations to all winners! We're very pleased to have supported this meeting with a poster prize 🏆

GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)@gbmev.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to our poster prize winners Pascal Höhne (spondored by @febsopenbio.bsky.social) from Münster (left), Kathelyn Cook from Dresden (2nd from left) and Di Chen (right) from London! @dichen02.bsky.social #MK2026

@febsopenbio.bsky.social  otorga un Premio al mejor Poster y un Premio a la mejor Comunicación Oral, a un estudiante de doctorado o post-doc que presenten un trabajo no publicado en el #48congresosebbm ℹ️Envío de comunicaciones hasta el 31 de mayo https://f.mtr.cool/upasgzzzsg

🆕 Article out today Why do frogs like it ♨️hot and salamanders like it ❄️cool, find out in new research from authors at Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology. Read more: 🔗 febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎉 Congratulations to Mahalakshmi Anand from Nanyang Technological University on winning the FEBS Open Bio Poster Prize at the "American Chemical Society, Singapore Chapter (ACS SG), Youth Challenge". A well deserved win for their poster entitled: Edge Functionalisation of Curved Nanographenes

Estamos orgullosos de poder continuar apoyando a los investigadores jóvenes en colaboración con la @sebbm.bsky.social ¡No te pierdas el #48congresosebbm!

Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (SEBBM)@sebbm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@febsopenbio.bsky.social  otorga un Premio al mejor Poster y un Premio a la mejor Comunicación Oral, a un estudiante de doctorado o post-doc que presenten un trabajo no publicado en el #48congresosebbm ℹ️Envío de comunicaciones hasta el 31 de mayo https://f.mtr.cool/hypyrmkvat

Meet 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲, winner of the @febsopenbio.bsky.social Best Poster Prize! 🏆 A PhD student at @recetox.bsky.social, Martin reminds us: "Science doesn’t always go as planned... but positive enthusiasm makes the difference." Read the interview: network.febs.org/posts/interv...

Interview series: Meet Martin Sitte, a FEBS Open Bio Poster Prize Winner

This interview series aims to introduce early-career award winners, highlight their work and scientific interests, and inspire young scientists and students to get involved in FEBS and FEBS Junior Sec...

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🚨 Our March issue is out now 📖 Interested in reading further check out all the articles in our latest issue online now 🔗 buff.ly/YPUtUmI

⏰️ One day left! There's still time to submit your manuscript to our Call for Papers on Host-Pathogen Interactions. Don't miss out on the chance to share your research on host-pathogen communications, pathogen tolerance and resistance mechanisms. 🔬 Submit here 👉️ buff.ly/NwTaoan

Supporting early-career researchers remains a key priority for FEBS Open Bio 🌱 This #InternationalWomensDay, we highlight a few of the women recipients of the FEBS Open Bio Poster prize 👩‍🔬 Stay tuned for upcoming interviews with these winners in collaboration @febsjuniorsection.bsky.social🎙️

🚨 New article alert Learn about chloroplast protein import in work by Mengyi Li and colleagues investigating the role of YlmG1 in preprotein translocation. 🔗 buff.ly/lcBziSq

What good is research without open, accessible data? 🔓️ The best place to make your data accessible is through a data repository. This #OpenDataDay, we're sharing a few cross-disciplinary repositories which you can use to support your research and its long-term impact. Explore the table below 👇️