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Elvira Forte @elviraforte.bsky.social · Sep 20

Very interesting paper from the Frangogiannis’s lab — #Fibroblast -Specific Loss of #TGF-β Signaling Mediates Lipomatous Metaplasia in the Infarcted #Heart (and cardiac rupture) www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... @ahajournals.bsky.social @einsteinmededu.bsky.social

Fibroblast-Specific Loss of TGF-β Signaling Mediates Lipomatous Metaplasia in the Infarcted Heart | Circulation

BACKGROUND: In patients surviving myocardial infarction, adipose tissue infiltration within the scar is a common pathological finding and has been suggested to contribute to dysfunction and arrhythmog...

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Aug 20

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the pandemic should be celebrated. Yet in the US, research into mRNA vaccines is being cut. While sadly not unexpected, it’s irresponsible as we argue in our editorial this week 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility

The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Elvira Forte @elviraforte.bsky.social · Jul 3

🚨 New preprint from the #EricAndWendySchmidtCenter! 🚨
"MORPH Predicts the Single-Cell Outcome of Genetic Perturbations Across Conditions and Data Modalities"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@broadinstitute.org #SingleCell #PerturbSeq #OpticalPooledScreen #AIinBiology #ScienceNews #CompBio

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Elvira Forte @elviraforte.bsky.social · Jun 12

#FOGBoston festivalofgenomics.com/boston

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 10

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jun 6

World Oceans Day is this weekend. 🌊⚒️🧪

Springer Nature @springernature.com · Jun 6

🌊 Dive into #WorldOceansDay research. Explore new publications on marine conservation and sustainable oceans at Springer Nature's #SDG14 hub. Visit now and discover more. go.sn.pub/a5jo3v

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Jun 3

Can you go from protein sequence to a generated image of protein localization? New work from the Uhler lab says yes, and it is generalizable to unseen proteins and more than one cell type. I'm excited for work moving us toward virtual cell models.

Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · May 13

PUPS - prediction of unseen proteins' subcellular localization - uses machine learning models to predict the localization of unseen proteins in unseen cell lines from sequence and cellular images.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · May 24

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏

youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · May 13

PUPS - prediction of unseen proteins' subcellular localization - uses machine learning models to predict the localization of unseen proteins in unseen cell lines from sequence and cellular images.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Blue Marine Foundation @bluemarinef.bsky.social · May 9

EXPOSED: Never seen before footage reveals the catastrophic impacts caused by bottom trawling ❌

@oceanauk.bsky.social

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OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH | BOTTOM TRAWLING OFFICIAL CLIP | IN CINEMAS NOW | Altitude Films

YouTube video by Altitude Films

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · May 9

Exciting news...Nature Methods is hiring a new editor! This exciting and dynamic role will be shared with the Nature Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team.

Apply here by June 1!
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

a yellow sign that says we 're hiring

ALT: a yellow sign that says we 're hiring

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Elvira Forte @elviraforte.bsky.social · May 1

Selective inhibition of stromal mechanosensing suppresses cardiac fibrosis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Selective inhibition of stromal mechanosensing suppresses cardiac fibrosis - Nature

Inhibition of a cardiac stroma-enriched mechanosensor, SRC—in concert with suppression of the TGFβ pathway—potentiates the reversal of fibroblast activation and alleviates contractile dysfunction in f...

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Broad Institute @broadinstitute.org · Apr 5

David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Liu is honored for the development of base editing and prime editing, two gene editing technologies transforming medicine. www.broadinstitute.org/news/david-l...

David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Liu is honored for the development of base editing and prime editing, two gene editing technologies transforming medicine.

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Shoa Clarke @shoaclarke.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thrilled that our work on coronary dominance made the cover of @cellpress.bsky.social! This beautiful image is thanks to the incredible work of @pamrc.bsky.social! 😍

#CardioSky

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The cover of Cell showing an image of a human heart and coronary arteries during development

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Paola Campagnolo @campagnololab.bsky.social · Mar 28

🌟 Few hours left to submit your abstract for the Annual Meeting of the Society (3-4 July 2025, University of Surrey, Guildford). Great programme, even better people...and a murder mystery at dinner! www.microcirculation.org.uk/75th-annual-... 🌟

75th Annual Meeting of the British Microcirculation and Vascular Biology Society

University of Surrey, GuildfordThursday 3rd and Friday 4th July 2025 Registration Abstract Submission Contact Organising Committee Click below to download flyer BMVBS MembershipMembers (before…

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Ahmed G. Ibrahim @ahmedgibrahim.bsky.social · Mar 29

This week, I have the privilege of interviewing Dr. Elisabeth Bik (@elisabethbik.bsky.social) in a special two-part series. We discuss her rich professional experience and path to data sleuthing. This is part I .https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9p4ye-1865e2f #science #research #integrity #data

Dr. Elisabeth Bik says question the data!-Part I

On this this week's episode, I have the pleasure and privilege of interviewing Dr. Elisabeth Bik in a special two-part series. We discuss her rich professional experience and her path to data sleuthin...

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Elvira Forte @elviraforte.bsky.social · Mar 26

So many good suggestions in this insightful piece by Dennis J Hazelett. “The only way to give structure to your thoughts is to write them. Writing.Is.Thinking” @naturebiotech.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 9

Research support for rare diseases, which cumulatively affect ~30 million Americans, is primarily derived from NIH.
Such work is exemplified by Prof Anna Greka @broadinstitute.org in a new Ground Truths podcast.
Open-access, w/ transcript, video, no ads
erictopol.substack.com/p/anna-greka...

Anna Greka: Molecular Sleuthing for Rare Diseases

Listen now | Finding the Mechanisms and the Basis for Potential Cures

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 1

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

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Elvira Forte @elviraforte.bsky.social · Feb 19

I heard about this interesting story a couple of years ago at an AHA meeting @ahascience.bsky.social. It's great to see it published @CellSystems. Congratulations @shovalmiyara.bsky.social‬, @eldadtzahor.bsky.social
@urialonlab.bsky.social et al!

Shoval Miyara @shovalmiyara.bsky.social · Feb 19

It’s finally here! My PhD work, five years in the making, is now published @CellSystems @cellpress.bsky.social 🚨
Cold and hot fibrosis define clinically distinct cardiac pathologies. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Cold and hot fibrosis define clinically distinct cardiac pathologies

Miyara et al. identify two types of fibrosis in cardiac pathologies: “hot fibrosis,” involving macrophage-myofibroblast interactions in chronic injuries, and acute-injury-driven “cold fibrosis,” contr...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 18

Visualizing RNA in live cells using CRISPR
nature.com/articles/s41...

Single-molecule live-cell RNA imaging with CRISPR–Csm - Nature Biotechnology

Single-molecule live-cell fluorescence in situ hybridization uses an RNA-targeting CRISPR–Csm complex to image and track endogenous RNAs.

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Stephen Matheson 🌵🚲 @sfmatheson.bsky.social · Feb 14

We started writing/posting Snippets a week ago, and our third one is up now, about tissue clocks and aging, written by Katrina Woolcock with a great image by Gloria Fuentes, both colleagues at Life Science Editors. Have a look!

www.lifescienceeditors.com/2025/02/13/t...

Tissue clocks derived from histological signatures of biological aging enable tissue-specific aging predictions from blood - Scientific editing and writing experts - Life Science Editors

Scientific editing and writing experts for manuscripts and grants

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Angela Andersen @angelaandersen.bsky.social · Feb 7

Checkout "Snippets" - the brainchild of our editor extraordinaire @sfmatheson.bsky.social www.lifescienceeditors.com/snippets/

Snippets - Scientific editing and writing experts - Life Science Editors

"Scientific editing and writing experts for manuscripts and grant

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Elvira Forte @elviraforte.bsky.social · Feb 3

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”, beautiful poem and very insightful summary of our conversation. Thank you @ahmedgibrahim.bsky.social !

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Ahmed G. Ibrahim @ahmedgibrahim.bsky.social · Feb 3

Doing a little catch-up posting with the Let's Get Coffee series. Today I reflect on my chat with @elviraforte.bsky.social and her thought-provoking question! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-r9pgp...

Let's Get Coffee! Elvira Forte Episode

In this episode of "Let's Get Coffee", I sit back and ponder Elvira's question and read a passage from Ulysses by the 19th Century English poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson. As always, your questions and inp...

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