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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 1h

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 20 - Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Biophysicists are realizing that there is an undervalued element at play in early development: Aside from genes, mechanical forces also steer the growth of embryos. @annademming.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/genes-have-h...

Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things | Quanta Magazine

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit mechanical forces for growth and development.

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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 1h

The 2019 Clinical #LaskerAward recognized H. Michael Shepard, Dennis J. Slamon, and Axel Ullrich for their invention of Herceptin, the first monoclonal antibody that is a standard therapy for HER2+ breast cancers. laskerfoundation.org/winners/herc... @mpibiochem.bsky.social 🧪

Herceptin—a targeted antibody therapy for breast cancer - Lasker Foundation

Explore All 2019 Winners & Awards > H. Michael Shepard Genentech Dennis J. Slamon University of California, Los Angeles Axel Ullrich Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry For their invention…

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Krishna Shrinivas @shrinivaslab.bsky.social · 21h

Happy to share our latest in @natcomputsci.nature.com
led by (amazing) Ryan Krueger + colab w M. Brenner!

We introduce a framework to directly design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations.
🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s435...
📰 www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3h

Regulatory T cells, or T regs, make up the basis for a slew of biotech companies working to treat immunological diseases. cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #chemsky 🧪

How Nobel-winning T regs fueled a new class of immunology companies

Nobel Prize–winning technology engineered to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 1h

Drop some CANDLES 🕯️ 🖤 🎂

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 1d

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 19 - Jack’s Mannequin - Everything in Transit
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

What does an accessible lab look like? Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be.

#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM #chemsky 🧪 cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

Making space in STEM for people with disabilities

Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon you will always love

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 1d

T regs, which help to dampen inflammation, won Nobel fame on Monday.
There is hope that they can be used in clinical trials against ailments such as certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases

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🧪 #MedSky #NobelPrize2025 #Nobel2025

These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?

Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · 1d

🎃💀Boys & girls of every age. Wouldn't you like to see something strange?💀🎃
🖌️🎨I painted Jack Skellington with E. coli expressing the small Ultra-Red Fluorescent Protein (smURFP).🧬🦠🧫
#TheNightmareBeforeChristmas #JackSkellington #SciArt #AgarArt #SciComm

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 1d

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 18 - Lady Gaga - The Fame
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 2d

In October 2025, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month #NDEAM. Meet the 2025 C&EN Trailblazers, chemists with disabilities who rethink how we do science: cen.acs.org/people/profi...

#DisabledInSTEM #chemsky 🧪

Trailblazers: Chemists with disabilities rethink how we do science

C&EN’s 2025 Trailblazers issue, curated by guest editor Mona Minkara, looks at how chemists can solve problems in new ways

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t have to fit a mold to make an impact in STEM. 🧪

Engineer and Creator Xyla Foxlin is challenging outdated ideas of who belongs in the field. She is doing this by combining technical skill with creativity, and showing that identity and innovation aren’t mutually exclusive.

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404 Media @404media.co · 2d

Scientists have developed a unique nanoparticle vaccine that prevented the development of multiple forms of cancer in mice.

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A New 'Nanoparticle Vaccine' Prevented Cancer In Mice, Study Says

The vast majority of mice that received the vaccine warded off repeated exposure to cancer cells, but the applications for humans are still not known.

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 3d

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 17 - Avicii - True
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Science Magazine @science.org · 3d

Researchers delineate how a pathway drives the growth of bone tumors in a painful inherited bone disorder, new experiments in mice show how an enzyme inhibits the leakage of calcium ions in skeletal muscle cells, and more this week in #ScienceSignaling. https://scim.ag/4obBkmM

$The image is a scanning electron micrograph of a freeze-fractured mammalian skeletal muscle fiber.$

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Science Magazine @science.org · 3d

A new generation of radiotherapies promises a more targeted attack on cancer.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3IwH8YW

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Nature @nature.com · 4d

It is time to recognize research software as a valuable scientific contribution in itself, beyond a tool — and to support it

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Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

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Nature @nature.com · 3d

Regulatory T cells, the immune cells at the centre of Monday's Nobel Prize, are showing promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases, cancer, and even organ transplants

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These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?

Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 3d

Post a film with an excellent soundtrack! 🎶

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a material world after all. And this year’s #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers who created a family of materials that could help solve some of humanity’s most critical problems. Read more: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 4d

#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 16 - Destiny’s Child - The Writing’s on the Wall
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 5d

HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people www.livescience.com/health/cance...

HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people

Researchers have found that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are highly effective at reducing cervical cancer-causing infections and can offer herd immunity, reinforcing previous research and highl...

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