Congratulations to the Kaelber team Jason Kaelber. Nicely done! Cryo-EM-based discovery of a pathogenic parvovirus causing epidemic mortality by black wasting disease in farmed beetles: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above

Halt on cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide statnews.com/2025/02/11/jud…

Congratulations Dr. Wang Haotian Wang. You are a rising star! The Welch Foundation

Dr. Andre Catic and Dr. Martin M. Matzuk are named to the 2025 cohort of its Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics (ACT). bit.ly/4aX7RHL #BCMFaculty

Researchers at The University of Chicago, @Argonne, and Harvard University perfected a new technique for creating experimental movies of proteins in action, showing that EFX can be a powerful new tool for quickly visualizing and understanding protein dynamics. pme.uchicago.edu/news/new-x-ray…

In memoriam | Daniel N. Hebert's (1962–2024) colleagues remember the passionate glycobiologist, scientist, caring mentor and kind friend. ow.ly/WccX50VjC9z

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a… Excited to share our latest paper uncovering a mitochondrial-to-endoplasmic reticulum stress response (MERSR)! We demonstrate how mitochondrial stress signals the ER to protect cellular proteostasis.

"New Horizons in Drug Discovery,” will feature speakers who have made foundational discoveries of new medicines, new drug discovery technology, and strategies for leveraging therapeutic modalities to treat diseases. Register here: welch1.org/conference/reg…

The Welch Foundation congratulates Jennifer A. Doudna for being named the recipient of the 2026 Priestly Medal!  As a former member of The Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Doudna contributed greatly to our mission of advancing basic chemical research.

A Foundation Chemical Language Model for Comprehensive Fragment-Based Drug Discovery 1. FragAtlas-62M is a groundbreaking chemical language model specifically designed for fragment-based drug discovery. It is trained on the largest fragment dataset to date, comprising over 62

FragAtlas-62M is the brainchild of Alex Ho and marks our first foray into machine learning and chemical language models for fragment-based drug discovery. Congrats Alex!

Few-Shot Classification of Cryo-EM Micrographs Using Triplet Loss Embeddings biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_biophys

Take Two – our second foray into machine learning. We introduce a triplet-loss few-shot framework for cryoEM micrograph classification, enabling rapid and adaptable quality assessment. Kudos to Alex and Brandon for a job well done! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How to prepare a scientific poster We asked researchers in a range of disciplines and career stages to share their tips for making the most of presenting a poster at a conference, including any adjustments they’ve made for conferences held online. 👉 bit.ly/46TAZOx