Hossein Borhan
@borhan-aafc.bsky.social
Molecular plant pathology research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Designing synthetic regulatory elements using the generative AI framework DNA-Diffusion www.nature.com/articles/s4...
December 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Designing synthetic regulatory elements using the generative AI framework DNA-Diffusion www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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Looking forward to this www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...
Why you might see purple tomatoes at the grocery store next year
Gardeners and shoppers could soon see a common grocery staple with a distinctive new colour next year.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Multiplexed profiling of transcriptional regulators in plant cells - @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov go.nature.com/4pw5cL1
Multiplexed profiling of transcriptional regulators in plant cells - Nature Biotechnology
ENTRAP-seq systematically links protein sequence to transcriptional output in a native plant context.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Multiplexed profiling of transcriptional regulators in plant cells - @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov go.nature.com/4pw5cL1
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Congrats to #BioEGSB affiliate scientist Ben Rubin and team on publication of @therubinlab.bsky.social's first lead paper!
New in Nucleic Acids Research from the Rubin Lab — OriGen, a language model that can generate plasmid origins of replication. 🔄🦠 The model makes sequences that are remarkably different from wild type origins, yet still replicate in vivo. Read here: https://ow.ly/jjOt50XIBxb
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Congrats to #BioEGSB affiliate scientist Ben Rubin and team on publication of @therubinlab.bsky.social's first lead paper!
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A twice-weekly cocktail of three messenger RNAs can rejuvenate the weary immune systems of aged mice and boost responses to vaccination and cancer treatments
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Restoring youth to old immune cells: mRNA therapy turns back the clock.
Testing in mice suggests that rejuvenating T cells could make vaccines and some cancer therapies more effective.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A twice-weekly cocktail of three messenger RNAs can rejuvenate the weary immune systems of aged mice and boost responses to vaccination and cancer treatments
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go.nature.com/4j6lwAn
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Another exciting preprint! Two additional HMA-TKP sensors from wheat and barley, swapping HMAs can confer recognition specificity. Evo analyses supporting HMA-TKP has differentiated to recognize different effectors through HMA diversification. other links below. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Evolution of HMA-integrated tandem kinases accompanied by expansion of target pathogens
Tandem kinase proteins (TKPs) are an emerging family of plant intracellular immune receptors that offer potential for developing novel disease resistance. We cloned Rmo2 and Rwt7, genes for resistance...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Another exciting preprint! Two additional HMA-TKP sensors from wheat and barley, swapping HMAs can confer recognition specificity. Evo analyses supporting HMA-TKP has differentiated to recognize different effectors through HMA diversification. other links below. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Want to establish your research program in Canada?
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.
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The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.
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Application process - Canada.ca
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December 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Want to establish your research program in Canada?
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) program is designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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Nature research paper: Fasting boosts breast cancer therapy efficacy via glucocorticoid activation
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Fasting boosts breast cancer therapy efficacy via glucocorticoid activation - Nature
Beneficial effects of fasting combined with endocrine therapy for oestrogen receptor-α-expressing breast cancers can be recapitulated using exogenous glucocorticoid receptor ligands instead of fasting to reduce harmful effects.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nature research paper: Fasting boosts breast cancer therapy efficacy via glucocorticoid activation
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go.nature.com/48yFe44
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission
The Americas Are No Longer Officially Measles-Free
Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission
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November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission
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The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year. It is time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan. Read the 'Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #RSOS 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year. It is time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan. Read the 'Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #RSOS 🧪
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Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data - @bocklab.bsky.social @cemm.oeaw.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at go.nature.com/3WPGJnW
Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data - Nature Biotechnology
CellWhisperer uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data - @bocklab.bsky.social @cemm.oeaw.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at go.nature.com/3WPGJnW
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
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‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
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By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
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Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria
Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
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go.nature.com/4oQ8bxO
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
Reposted by Hossein Borhan
German researchers team up with Danish biotech @novonesis.com to find a solution to one of the ocean’s biggest plastic polluters: a bacterium that eats the recalcitrant polyamides in discarded fishing nets nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ghost fishing nets meet microbial recyclers - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - Ghost fishing nets meet microbial recyclers
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October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
German researchers team up with Danish biotech @novonesis.com to find a solution to one of the ocean’s biggest plastic polluters: a bacterium that eats the recalcitrant polyamides in discarded fishing nets nature.com/articles/s41...
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rdcu.be/eL3j1
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Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses (Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Zachary Savage, Vojtěch Pražák, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses
Chloroplast tethering to the pathogen interface via membrane contact sites promotes focal callose deposition and strengthens plant immunity.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Membrane contact sites between chloroplasts and the pathogen interface underpin plant focal immune responses (Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Zachary Savage, Vojtěch Pražák, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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A long road to the Cover of Science!
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Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91
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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
Nature - The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91
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