Julian Grünewald
@grunewald.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at TUM. CRISPR tech dev, cardiovascular gene & cell therapies. https://www.cos.tum.de/en/cos/research/gruenewald-lab/
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grunewald.bsky.social
Very excited about the first preprint from our lab at TUM! This is a fun gene & cell therapy collaboration led by
@schmidts.bsky.social's lab. We use generative #AI
to design new #CARTcell therapies. Check out Andrea's thread & thanks to the whole team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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erictopol.bsky.social
Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism"
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
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natbiotech.nature.com
By combining high-throughput protein engineering with machine learning, bespoke SpCas9 enzymes are identified that outperform evolution-based and engineered nucleases and base editors in human cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NBTHighlight
Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning - Nature
Nature - Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
AlphaFold is amazing but gives you static structures 🧊

In a fantastic teamwork, @mcagiada.bsky.social and @emilthomasen.bsky.social developed AF2χ to generate conformational ensembles representing side-chain dynamics using AF2 💃

Code: github.com/KULL-Centre/...
Colab: github.com/matteo-cagia...
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jengreitz.bsky.social
Our latest work now online in Cell:

Rewriting regulatory DNA to dissect and reprogram gene expression

Our new method (Variant-EFFECTS) uses high-throughput prime editing + flow sorting + sequencing to precisely measure effects of noncoding variants on gene expression

Thread 👇
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kevinkaichuang.bsky.social
RFDiffusion2: a diffusion model that scaffolds enzyme active sites at the atomic level enables the generation of functional de novo enzymes

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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tim-stasevich.bsky.social
Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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erturklab.bsky.social
Twitter:
LNP/mRNA therapeutics and AAV-based approaches require cell-level precision to achieve success without significant toxicity to other cells. To enable this, we developed SCP-Nano: an AI and tissue-clearing-based technology for precision nanotechnology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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markuselsner.bsky.social
New paper from our lab (@erturklab.bsky.social)

We show how tissue clearing, light sheet microscopy, and AI-based image analysis can be combined to determine the biodistribution and drug delivery efficiency of nanocarriers throughout entire mouse bodies with single-cell resolution.
Nanocarrier imaging at single-cell resolution across entire mouse bodies with deep learning - Nature Biotechnology
An integrated experimental and deep learning pipeline reveals cell-level targeting of nanocarriers in whole bodies.
www.nature.com
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erturklab.bsky.social
Imagine seeing a disease's impact on every cell in the body. Now, you can! We introduce MouseMapper, an AI tool to reveal system-wide disease perturbations. It reveals obesity-induced changes in facial nerves & body-wide inflammation 👉🧵https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.18.608300v1.full.pdf
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crisprflydesign.bsky.social
Our new preprint is out - please share!

We asked: How can we make CRISPR knockouts in vivo more efficient? And set up an assay that enables detection of CRISPR cutting with 100s-1000s of sgRNAs over entire chromosome arms in living animals.

Grab a ☕ and let’s dive in. 🧵🧪 1/n
#CRISPR #geneediting
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chribue.bsky.social
By definition, enhancers can activate from a distance. But with increased distance between enhancer and promoter, the activation drops. To study this systematically, we build a synthetic locus: www.cell.com/molecular-ce... 1/12
Redirecting
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haoyin.bsky.social
2X #DilatedCardiomyopathy GWAS MATG #NatGenet 2024 reveal novel genes/cellular players

PROX1 - #LymphaticEndothelialCell
ERG - #EndothelialCell
DGKG - #SmoothMuscleCell
MAPT/Tau validated in both studies

>9k case
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

>14k case
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