Delighted to be a small part of this beautiful new study from @mariakoufaki.bsky.social and @santiagozelenay.bsky.social, identifying a #DendriticCell phenotype and activation state that is critical for anti- #tumour #immunity 🧪 #ImmunSky - congratulations Maria and Santiago!

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Online now: CCR7+ activated dendritic cells are essential for spontaneous and immunotherapy-driven anti-tumor immunity

Proteins derived from retroelements can relay gene-editing tools to restore dystrophin protein in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a preprint finds. #neuroskyence By @briannaabbott.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/vir...

Nanoparticles deliver gene-editing tools into Duchenne mice

The approach uses a protein found in fruit flies to ferry the gene editor Cas9 into muscle cells.

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Nature research paper: Miniaturizing and modifying natural proteins with Raygun go.nature.com/4w2usM2

Miniaturizing and modifying natural proteins with Raygun - Nature

Probabilistic sequence encoding from language model embeddings within a generative AI framework enables protein miniaturization, modification and augmentation while maintaining native architecture and functional integrity.

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Childhood brain cancers are devastating and difficult to treat. Find out how brain tumours hijack the brain’s communication system at the Frontiers for Young Minds Brain Prize collection. https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2026.1763974 #Neuroscience #BrainPrize

A New Hope for Treating Childhood Brain Cancer

The brain is full of billions of healthy cells—but sometimes a few of them can start growing out of control and become cancerous. The cells that “go bad” can form brain tumors called gliomas. We discovered that glioma cells actually connect directly with healthy brain cells and “hijack” the brain’s normal communication system. They use the same electrical signals and chemical messengers that usually help the brain grow and learn to fuel their own growth instead. In this article, I will explain what we currently know about how glioma cells communicate with healthy brain cells, and how this...

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New MitoBlog alert! Check out our exclusive Q&A with Celeste Nelson on her #ScienceAdvances @science.org @aaas.org paper on #Mitochondria ATP & #TissueFolding! mitoworld.org/patterns-of-... @UMDF #UMDF #mitoscientists #mitochondria #mitochondrialdisease #developmentalbiology

Patterns of Mitochondrial ATP Predict Tissue Folding - MitoWorld

The shapes and sizes of tissues and organs are critical to multicellular organisms, but the mechanisms controlling the different processes that generate them are only partially understood. A research ...

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"We demonstrate the precise photoactivation of spatial and temporal sequences of neurons in one or multiple cortical areas while reading out the downstream effects in several other regions." Probing inter-areal computations with a two-photon holographic mesoscope doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02350-9

Probing inter-areal computations with a two-photon holographic mesoscope - Nature Neuroscience

The authors developed a new microscope that can measure and manipulate brain activity across multiple brain regions simultaneously with high precision, enabling scientists to study how spatially distr...

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Neuroscience in Chile, and across Latin America, does not lack talent or ideas, but the systems that make science visible—prestige journals, conferences and networks—increasingly price its researchers out, argues @medelero.bsky.social. #neuroskyence

Scientific talent is global. Access is not.

Neuroscience in Chile does not lack talent or ideas, but the systems that make science visible increasingly price its researchers out.

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Excited to share our latest paper, published in Experimental Neurology. Congratulations to @ingapartlova.bsky.social on her first first-author publication! 🔗 You can read the paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ex...

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

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An Update on the Model of Connectivity of the Hippocampal Formation (I): The Perforant Pathway to the Dentate Gyrus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An Update on the Model of Connectivity of the Hippocampal Formation (I): The Perforant Pathway to the Dentate Gyrus

The hippocampus participates in crucial functions such as memory consolidation, spatial processing and emotional regulation that require diverse input from multiple cortical areas that is funneled th...

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Developing mouse inhibitory neuron single-cell transcriptomes reveal distinct modes of cell-type diversification www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Developing mouse inhibitory neuron single-cell transcriptomes reveal distinct modes of cell-type diversification - Nature Neuroscience

Researchers discover a transient inhibitory cell type, and reveal that the developing cortex builds inhibitory diversity through three routes—early commitment, gradual diversification and selective el...

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Our Dispatch "Evolution: Ancient monoamines in a neuron-less animal" out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Monoamine signaling and behavioral responses in placozoans suggest this system predates bilaterians. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYJl3QW8S... @annaferraioli.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Perez-Tirado, A., Unkelbach, U., Oswald, T. A., Rheinlaender, J., ... Honigmann, A., & Janshoff, A. (2025). Differences in apical and basal mechanics regulate compliance of curved epithelia. Cell Reports Physical Science, 6(3), 102485. doi.org/10.1016/j.xc... #EpithelialMechanics

ICYMI: New online! Engineered interfaces in electronic materials for energy-efficient computing

Engineered interfaces in electronic materials for energy-efficient computing

Nature Reviews Materials, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41578-026-00949-9As electronic devices downscale, the energy efficiency of computing is increasingly limited by interfacial transport processes. This Perspective outlines how engineered electronic-material interfaces control switching, charge and heat transport, and reliability and discusses interface design for logic, memory, interconnects and thermal management, whereas identifying predictive modelling needs for interface design.

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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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New study by UC Berkeley researchers pinpoints human DNA inherited from ‘ghost’ ancestors. bit.ly/450g7Vp

New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from ‘ghost’ ancestors - Berkeley News

Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with modern human ancestors, leaving behind telltale DNA in our genomes. Now we have evidence of modern human interbreeding with two much older but unknown ancest...

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1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#MicroscopyMonday | A #zebrafish oocyte (immature egg), including the animal pole where the future embryo will develop (shiny blue upper left), the yolk (central dark space), & follicular cells that support the oocyte maturation (orange). (Si Lab & @bazzinilab.bsky.social Lab)

> systemic harms can arise when AI is uncritically embraced as a revolution for women’s health. [Concerns involve] (1) impoverished understandings of gender and sex, which are (2) fed uncritically into AI models surrounded by hype, leading to (3) harms rather than improvements in health. 1/n

Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 The Call for Symposia for #FRM2027 is now open! 📍 İstanbul, Turkey 🗓️ 26–29 May 2027 🚨 Submission deadline: 1 November 2026 👉 Read more and submit your proposal: buff.ly/AW9JI2C @frm2027ist.bsky.social

Nature research paper: A global view of human centromere variation and evolution go.nature.com/4fpD0aI

A global view of human centromere variation and evolution - Nature

Complete sequencing of more than 2,000 centromeres from diverse humans reveals structures and elevated mutation rates that shape the evolution of these critically important regions.

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The dark horse of biology: how RNA is becoming a nanotool maker’s dream www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The dark horse of biology: how RNA is becoming a nanotool maker’s dream

Scientists are harnessing its ability to fold, switch and reorganize itself to create a new generation of cellular technologies.

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#OtD 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043...

On a day when air-conditioning sounded good, I went to see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. And, this is what I found: www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/03/t...

The Odyssey of the West

In the London Review of Books, Emily Wilson, the renowned translator of Homer’s Odyssey from Greek to English in 2017, made her views plain about Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey. Nolan, who won a...

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A scientist is helping uncover the role of the immune system in endometriosis—while managing the disease herself. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4oDvjAa #ScienceMagArchives

"No Safe Place to Heal" documents relentless attacks on healthcare and medical personnel in #Ukraine. Our teams are witnessing how drone warfare is rapidly outpacing the medical response: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/ukraine-the-...

Ukraine: The destruction of healthcare is not a random consequence of war, it is deliberate and calculated | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

MSF’s new report documents attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare system, showing how damaged hospitals and threats to medical workers are limiting access to care.

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@msf.ca is calling for the immediate release of Palestinian healthcare workers who remain arbitrarily detained by #Israel.

#Haiti: When reaching a hospital becomes too dangerous, what happens to people who need care? Haitian artist Vicky Onélien illustrates how violence can prevent patients from reaching hospitals and interrupt treatments. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/haiti-people...

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC