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CSIC @csic.es · 13h

🏅 El #CSIC anuncia los vídeos ganadores del concurso ‘Yo investigo. Yo soy CSIC’

📹 Los vídeos están protagonizados por personal investigador en formación que explica su trabajo en clave divulgativa

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/cmzsvlcaqn

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Bussi Lab @bussilab.org · Jul 22

A review reporting on the discussions held at the recent @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop on enzymatic plastic degradation that we co-organized in Trieste is now available on #arxiv

Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Jul 22

The paper highlighting key insights, future challenges, and research priorities identified during our recent CECAM workshop in Trieste is now available online. Take a look to see what’s coming next in the field of enzymatic plastic degradation:

arxiv.org/abs/2507.14413

Many thanks, everyone!

Computations Meet Experiments to Advance the Enzymatic Depolymerization of Plastics One Atom at a Time

Plastics are essential to modern life, yet poor disposal practices contribute to low recycling rates and environmental accumulation-biological degradation and by-product reuse offer a path to mitigate...

arxiv.org

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Jul 22

Beyond the technical discussions, everyone appreciated the relaxed, collaborative atmosphere fostered by the small format and classroom setting. We hope this report inspires new initiatives and shared consortia toward open, bio-based plastic recycling.

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Jul 22

The paper highlighting key insights, future challenges, and research priorities identified during our recent CECAM workshop in Trieste is now available online. Take a look to see what’s coming next in the field of enzymatic plastic degradation:

arxiv.org/abs/2507.14413

Many thanks, everyone!

Computations Meet Experiments to Advance the Enzymatic Depolymerization of Plastics One Atom at a Time

Plastics are essential to modern life, yet poor disposal practices contribute to low recycling rates and environmental accumulation-biological degradation and by-product reuse offer a path to mitigate...

arxiv.org

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Michal Caspi Tal, PhD @immunofever.bsky.social · Jul 20

Thank you @briannaabbott.bsky.social for this wonderful piece, and highlighting what the MIT MAESTRO study means to our participants!
I love that my quote was about HOPE. I KNOW that this is a solvable problem. We need to work together to fix it!
www.wsj.com/health/chron...

Chronic Lyme Disease Was Once Dismissed. More Doctors Are Coming Around.

Newer trials are starting to track Lyme patients and investigate potential treatments

www.wsj.com

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Jul 21

Comparison of Molecular Recognition in Docking Versus Experimental CSD and PDB Data | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Jul 9

Protists!

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

Single-celled organisms set for greater role in gut health

Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health.

www.nature.com

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Sofia J. Araújo @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social · Jul 2

Great news from the @crg.eu on @monicabettencourt.bsky.social appointment as the new director. This is excellent for the CRG and for catalan #science, for Monica is an excellent choice and a leader to a bright scientific future! #womeninscience

Monica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy to be the next (and 1st female) @crg.eu director. The CRG always stood out to me, for its excellence in understanding life's principles, with implications for health and biodiversity, & its collaborative, open and innovative way of doing science. Thrilled to join its amazing community in 2026!

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Jun 6

www.vph-institute.org/news/crackin...

Cracking the code of Multiple Sclerosis with in silico medicine

multiple sclerosis (ms) is often called the disease of a thousand faces. and for good reasons– no …

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Jun 4

After all, much of what we consider "ourselves" is microbial—the essential human microbiome. When infections occur they disrupt a complex ecological balance—altering the equilibrium that defines our natural state. We NEED healthy, robust, and interdisciplinary infectious disease research!

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · May 30

Excellent piece by @julieparsonnet.bsky.social on infectious diseases as root causes of a number of chronic human diseases; pausing research on bacterial and viral infections will limit efforts to cure neurodegeneration, autoimmune, metabolic disease as well as cancer

substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Infections cause everything

Another reason why RFK Jrs. MAHA plan is misguided

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Anton Petrov @antonipetrov.bsky.social · May 23

🤯 Implications for OLE RNA as a natural integral membrane RNA from Ron Breaker's lab rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · May 13

Thanks for joining us Vicent! It was great to listen your fantastic talk!

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vicentmoliner.bsky.social @vicentmoliner.bsky.social · May 12

Thanks to the organizers for the invitation: Francesco Colizzi (
@molecularocean.bsky.social ) Paula Blazquez-Sanchez and Giovanni Busi. It was fantastic!

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Apr 9

Bonobos, our closest living relatives, exhibit communication that shares more structural similarities with human language than previously recognized.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...

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L’Express @lexpress.fr · Apr 8

Trois de nos plus grands scientifiques, Yasmine Belkaid (@pasteur.fr), Bana Jabri (@institutimagine.bsky.social) et Alain Puisieux (@institutcurie.bsky.social), prennent la parole pour appeler à des réponses courageuses des pouvoirs publics face aux attaques contre la recherche. ⬇️

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · Apr 4

This article does a great job describing the lives of young American scientists:

“You roll up your sleeves, try to make or discover something useful and then let the scientific community try to punch holes in your work to make sure that it’s sound”

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Apr 4

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)

Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com

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Yolanda Perez @yolandapereznmr.bsky.social · Apr 5

This sound familiar: “However, it turns out that travel agencies charge far more than it would cost an academic to arrange their own travel and accommodation—sometimes staggeringly more”

prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.bsky.social · Apr 5

With Academia under financial pressure, this article hits home. It is time to focus on our core objectives and purpose. academic.oup.com/brain/articl... 🥽🍎🧪

On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Apr 3

Only a few days left to secure your spot at the most groundbreaking conference in the world! 😎 (Okay, maybe not 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 much, but it’s going to be fun). Don’t miss out—register now before the deadline hits!

Outstanding list of speakers, and talks, and posters:
www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

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Molecular Ocean Lab @molecularocean.bsky.social · Apr 2

It was great to contribute to the characterization of these new Cas9 molecular scissors from the deep ocean, alongside a dream team led by Silvia Acinas and Julian Ceron. @raticosdeciencia.bsky.social
www.icm.csic.es/en/news/gene...

Genetic scissors from the deep ocean: new tools to rewrite life | Institut de Ciències del Mar

A team from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), in collaboration with the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), has applied for the patent of two new “gene editing scissors” with...

www.icm.csic.es

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Noelia Ferruz @noeliaferruz.bsky.social · Mar 26

Today I remembered my first QM parameterization of a small molecule failed miserably (turn volume ON for a full experience)

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David Konrad @dbkonrad.bsky.social · Jan 30

Very excited to share our review on "The Chemistry and Biology of the Tetrodotoxin Natural Product Family", where we discuss their potential for the development of analgesics, structure-activity relationships on NaV channels, biosynthetic hypotheses and chemical syntheses: tinyurl.com/ye6nwnwu.

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Giovanni Bussi @bussigio.bsky.social · Mar 27

We are finalizing the program of the @cecamevents.bsky.social RNA modelling across scales www.cecam.org/workshop-det... at SISSA, Trieste, Italy, May 19-22. Please note that we still have a few slots for in person attendance. We will accept applications for the next few weeks, until fully booked!

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Giovanni Bussi @bussigio.bsky.social · Mar 20

Still a few days remaining to apply for the RNA modelling across scales @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop at SISSA. Deadline March 23, hurry up!!

Giovanni Bussi @bussigio.bsky.social · Feb 20

Interested in #RNA modelling across multiple scales? Join us for the @cecamevents.bsky.social meeting at SISSA, Trieste, May 19-22! www.cecam.org/workshop-det... We still have slots for contributed talks. Deadline March 23. Co-organized with @magistratolab.bsky.social and @marcodevivo.bsky.social

CECAM - RNA modelling across scales

www.cecam.org

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Hannah Wayment-Steele @hkws.bsky.social · Mar 20

Protein dynamics was the first research to enchant me >10yrs ago, but I left in PhD bc I couldn't find big experimental data to evaluate models.

Today w @ginaelnesr.bsky.social, I'm thrilled to share the big dynamics data I've been dreaming of, and the mdl we trained w them: Dyna-1.
📝: rb.gy/de5axp

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