“Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest.” Albert Szent-Györgyi

Many Canadian conservatives appear to have forgotten they don’t live in the United States. Canada will be hit by U.S. tariffs. Canada will be more vulnerable if NATO collapses. Canada will likely be inundated with people leaving the U.S. if mass deportations do indeed take place.

Organoids are the supermodels of biomedical research—finally giving us lab models that can actually model! Proud to share that I’ll be attending the Organoid Symposium with a scholarship from Stem Cell Network. Eager to learn more and connect with fellow researchers! Placenta Lab

Today, my positive control decided to take a day off, and all I could think of was Neil deGrasse Tyson’s wisdom: ‘The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.’ Honestly, neither is my experiment apparently.

University websites are like distant stars, when you look at them you see the scientists as they used to be many years ago

Today we report in Nature Biotechnology a system for the laboratory evolution of engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs) that enables the discovery of eVLP variants with desired properties, including improved production and delivery potency. 1/13 PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1E6Nr86…

Just like in “March of Progress” science moves forward step by step. Remember that future scientists will follow the path we leave behind.

Happy to share our new paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Special congratulations to the first author, Dr. Reza Rezaei, and our amazing collaborators. Reza Rezaei Lee-Hwa Tai, PhD Tommy Alain rdcu.be/d1MzQ nature.com/articles/s4155…

What do all maladies have in common? Increased entropy! Isn’t it amazing how the body evolved to restore its low order?

While making Ghorme Sabzi, an Iranian dish, I started thinking about the first person who ever cooked food. Were they a chemist experimenting with ingredients? Isn’t cooking like running a delicious science experiment in a reactor pot!”

Exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a systematic review and metaanalysis 👉 doi.org/10.1186/s13023… #ExonSkipping #DuchenneMuscularDystrophy #DMD #Eteplirsen #Drisapersen #ClinicalTrials #6MinuteWalkTest #MetaAnalysis #AntisenseOligonucleotides

Beautiful animation of metabolic flux in the mitochondrial Kreb (TCA) cycle The three "CO2" coming off the cycle is how you lose weight: carbon from your material body coming off as gas you end up breathing out By Janet Iwasa

In mice cysteine-restriction-induced adipose browning and #weightloss requires sympathetic nervous system-derived noradrenaline signalling via β3-adrenergic-receptors that is independent of FGF21 and UCP1 Nature Metabolism nature.com/articles/s4225…

What's the meaning of the glucose spikes after eating? A new Nature Medicine study finds people have different food triggers and some connect with insulin resistance, along with ways to mitigate spikes nature.com/articles/s4159…

The road toward AAV-mediated gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy 👉 10.1016/j.ymthe.2025.03.065 Hichem Tasfaout #DuchenneMuscularDystrophy #AAVVectors #MicroDystrophin #MiniDystrophin #CRISPR #GeneEditing #MuscleGeneTherapy #SystemicDelivery #DystroBlog #Nikilab.net

Imagine slicing a c57 placenta, sequencing each section, and compute it 3D, a living gene-expression map! Imagine doing it every 18.5 days of gestation: a placenta database website! A full transcriptional atlas of the organ. Who wants to run this together?IFPA