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🧪 Researchers just discovered a completely unknown single-celled organism that doesn’t belong to any known major group of life - hiding in plain sight in a lab culture!! 🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup - Nature
The discovery of an unusual protist named Solarion arienae, which has a mitochondrial genome with some intriguing features, provides insight into the early radiation of eukaryotic groups.
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🧪 Hey y'all! We are excited to start another interview series! Please welcome dr. Sarah Knox - a principal investigator and CEO of a biotech company! Check out our Instagram and TikTok to find out what we discussed this time! 🔥 IG: www.instagram.com/p/DRe9ONhEbqC/ TT: www.tiktok.com/@talkscience...
Talk Science To Me on Instagram: "Welcome to a new series of interviews with scientists ✨🔬- this time featuring Dr. Sarah Knox! 👩🔬 🔬As a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr....
2 likes, 0 comments - talkscience_official on November 21, 2025: "Welcome to a new series of interviews with scientists ✨🔬- this time featuring Dr. Sarah Knox! 👩🔬 🔬As a Professor at the University o...
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Where cellular garbage needs to be removed, there’s always a macrophage happy to take care of it. And where there’s a macrophage… there’s Magda from Immuknowledge, happy to tell you some immunology! 💙 This week, for the tenth Immuknowledge celebration, we dive into microglia–astrocyte crosstalk 🧠
🧪 It's a Stem Press appreciation week! This time Karol is yapping about... YAP1 protein and how it can "yap" to the nucleus to initiate the regeneration! You cannot miss this one 💥 Watch the the video on Instagram or TikTok: IG: www.instagram.com/p/DQpQXGCDKBR/ TT: www.tiktok.com/@talkscience...
✨ It’s Stem Press time! 🧬 Everyone’s been yapping about regeneration — but this time, YAP1 is actually doing the talking. ⚙️ A new study found that the ability to regrow tissue isn’t just about gene...
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🩸 Mice that get a period? It’s real! 🧬 Scientists have engineered lab mice that can simulate menstruation-like bleeding! This breakthrough opens new pathways for studying menstrual health, disorders like endometriosis, and more! 🧪 🔗Don’t miss the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
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🤔A new study challenges a Nobel Prize idea? 🧫Scientists engineered human olfactory receptors and revealed that certain odors can be recognized by single, highly specific receptors, challenging the view that odor perception always relies on broad combinatorial patterns! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Decoding human olfaction by high heterologous expression of odorant receptors detecting signature odorants
Emter et al. improve in vitro expression of odorant receptors (OR) by engineering the C-terminal domain. With a library of engineered ORs, they discover ORs for signature odorants, which they relate t...
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🧪 New potential therapy for treating Alzheimer’s Disease? Scientists significantly resolved AD's phenotype in mice by hijacking blood-brain barrier transport mechanics to preserve and reactivate its clearing function! #alzheimer's #disease #therapy #medicine
Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport
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Regulatory T cells are definitely the stars this week! ✨ First, winning the Nobel Prize, and now starring in the newest episode of Immuknowledge! 🧬What if we told you that some of the things we inherit don’t actually come from our genes? 👀 Don’t miss this episode to find out more!
Tune into Salk's podcast, Beyond Lab Walls, and meet Tony Hunter, the famed cancer biologist, who just celebrated 50 years at the Institute. His persistent curiosity has fueled discovery and lifesaving medications, and continues to shape the future of cancer research. www.salk.edu/blw-podcast/...
✨ In case you missed it – the Ig Nobel Prizes 2025 have already been awarded! 🏆And the main prize in Biology goes to…Scientists who painted cows like zebras! 🔗: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
🧪 New episode of #StemPress just dropped! This time we are discussing why mammals cannot regenerate limbs 🐭 Recent discovery shows that the secret isn't in the DNA sequence, but... our environment? Check out the new video to learn more! #oxygen #chromatin #regeneration
📊 Presenting data is an inevitable yet demanding part of being a scientist. But perhaps even harder is explaining science to those who are not scientists. So how can complex research be conveyed in a way that non-scientists can easily understand? 🤔
A Mars sample collected in 2024 may be “the closest we’ve actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars,” according to NASA officials 🧪 eos.org/research-and...
Perseverance Sample Shows Evidence of Ancient Martian Microbial Metabolisms - Eos
A sample collected in July 2024 by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may be “the closest we've actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars,” according to Nicky Fox, the science head of NASA.
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🦵We’re sure you’ve heard of phantom limbs - the sensation or pain felt in a limb that has been amputated. What if we told you that…. …the brain never forgets the missing limb?🧠
Stable cortical body maps before and after arm amputation - Nature Neuroscience
Longitudinal neuroimaging of participants with planned arm amputations shows that the cortical body map remains stable after amputation, with no evidence of hand or face reorganization, thus challengi...
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🧪 Are you ready for a new portion of the interview with prof. Austad? We introduced him some time ago and we're back with more! Check out what we discussed this time ⬇️ Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DOGSZGwjB9b/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@talkscience... #career #advice #mentoring #science #academia
Are you ready for a brand-new Immuknowledge episode? 🤓 This time, the story is about an unexpected ally in the fight against cancer. 🦀 Don’t miss it - today, we get revenge! ⚔️
💡An incredibly thoughtful piece you won’t want to miss: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...
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🩸 One drop is all it takes… And this is another Stem Press episode! 🧪 A recent study demonstrates a small-molecule-only reprogramming strategy that converts human peripheral or cord blood cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (hCiPSCs) with unprecedented efficiency 💯.
💬 Advice Every Student Should Hear 🙌 Dr. Erika Moore reminds us that success doesn’t mean never struggling; it means knowing who can support you and how to get there together. 🤝 Advocate for yourself, build your support network, and most importantly: believe in yourself!
🧬 A new study in Cell reveals that the potato lineage was born from an ancient hybridization between the ancestors of tomatoes and Etuberosum, around 8–9 million years ago! 📎 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage
Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alter...
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🦷✨ Needles? Nah. Just floss. Scientists have found a wild way to deliver vaccines—using dental floss coated in vaccine ingredients. The study shows that flossing the space between your teeth and gums triggers a powerful immune response—with fewer barriers than under‑tongue drops or nasal sprays.
🧪 Happy Monday y'all! To make your week better, we remind you that last week we shared another interview series with one and only @drerikamoore.bsky.social ✨ Dr. Moore shared with us some really valuable insights into the research she makes, but also something else...
🚨Breaking News!🚨 Scientists from the U.K. confirm that eight children are living healthy lives thanks to a revolutionary three-person in vitro fertilization (IVF). Wait… three people? 🤯
👋 Hey Immune Geeks! Magda is back with another episode — and this one is a true heist story happening inside your cells! 🦠Buckle up! In this Immuknowledge, we dive into a viral immune escape strategy with a quick detour through… iron transport! #science #immunology
🍄What if we told you fungi have their own language? A while ago, Prof. Andrew Adamatzky studied the electrical signals in four fungi species... ...and discovered that fungi use spikes of electrical activity that resemble words! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity | Royal Society Open Science
Fungi exhibit oscillations of extracellular electrical potential recorded via differential electrodes inserted into a substrate colonized by mycelium or directly into sporocarps. We analysed electrica...
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🧪 It’s Stem Press time! Here, we’re all about stem cells — but here’s the thing: not all stem cells are nice. Some are the ultimate villains hiding in plain sight: cancer stem cells 💀
🧪We all care about our buddies - and so do cells! 🙌 📄This fascinating paper shows how cells with DNA damage caused by radiation don't just deal with it alone. They send out exosomes to nearby bystander cells, helping them respond to DNA damage too! 👇
💡We have already shared many brilliant insights from Dr. McEver, but today we’re sharing one of our personal favorites: ✨“A good mentor has to have a genuine interest in the welfare and the progress of their trainees.”✨
🧪 Hello folks! This week we have shared another part of the interview with Dr. McEver - you may remember him from our last interview series!
