This is the kind of idiocy you get on Threads. I think the main purpose of pursuing a PhD is to develop your thinking, research, and communication skills, which you can't do in 45 minutes on Claude.
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Also check out the preprint by the Skotheim lab that reaches similar conclusions using and orthogonal system to alter non-coding DNA content. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Synthetic expansion of non-coding DNA reveals physiological constraints on genome size
Genome size varies widely across eukaryotes, largely because of differences in non-coding DNA, but the physiological consequences of this variation remain unclear. To directly test how non-coding DNA ...
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😍 Looking forward to reading this!
Wieczorek Lab@mike-wieczorek.bsky.social · last mo.New preprint! In collaboration with the Steinmetz Lab at PSI we report cryo-EM structures of microtubules at up to 1.9 Å (!) resolution & in different nucleotide state mimics, suggesting a mechanism for lattice-induced GTP hydrolysis and why it leads to catastrophe: tinyurl.com/7cjrf863
New preprint! In collaboration with the Steinmetz Lab at PSI we report cryo-EM structures of microtubules at up to 1.9 Å (!) resolution & in different nucleotide state mimics, suggesting a mechanism for lattice-induced GTP hydrolysis and why it leads to catastrophe: tinyurl.com/7cjrf863
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Doing a PhD is not simply generating data. It’s learning how to be a scientist. It’s teaching and science communication, and writing, and presenting and FUCKING THINKING.
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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
In vitro reconstitution is powerful: we can rebuild Plasmodium microtubule architectures from purified components and recapitulate what cells actually do 🤩 Thanks to an incredible team that made this possible 🙌 @carolynmoores1.bsky.social in particular rdcu.be/e7eM2
Adaptations in Plasmodium tubulin determine distinct microtubule architectures, mechanics and drug susceptibility
Nature Communications - Tubulin conservation presents a challenge to understanding microtubules’ diverse functions in eukaryotes. Here, the authors characterize the structures of P....
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The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell | Quanta Magazine
Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.
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