From sluggish and complex to lightning-fast and accessible, the evolution of computational tools in biology is truly remarkable and kind of scary. I wonder if this is how the shift from punch cards felt? 🤪

Haha ......Nacho

A quick update: Academics who went looking for genetic traces of H5N1 in store-bought milk from 10 US states found it in nearly 40% of samples. FDA's own investigation, which aims to be a 'large representative national sample,' has found evidence of H5N1 in 20% of milk products.

📝 Scientific American (Scientific American) recently published an article and podcast episode highlighting the extensive career of Melba Phillips, a theoretical physicist who taught at #ConnCollege after co-authoring a paper with J. Robert Oppenheimer.

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3QhllFe

Grandmother Becomes Second Patient to Receive Kidney From Gene-Edited Pig
nytimes.com/2024/04/24/hea…

A new study led by MBARI collaborators at Smithsonian NMNH explores the evolution of bioluminescence. A team of researchers, including MBARI’s stevehaddock.bsky learned bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in soft corals.

Learn more: mbari.org/know-your-ocea…

First glowing animals lit up the oceans half a billion years ago nature.com/articles/d4158…

Final FY24 budget for US research is a disaster.
Budgets of federal agencies are mostly or cut down

NIH $47.08B flat
NSF $9.06B (-5%)
NASA Sci. $7.33B (-6%)
CDC $9.2B flat
DOE Sci. $8.24B (+1.7%)
ARPA-E 0.46B (-2%)
DOD Sci. $2.6B (-9%)
DARPA $4.1B flat
Global Health $10B (-5%)

Treatment from female doctors leads to lower mortality and hospital readmission rates, finds study medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-t…

Yusuke Tsugawa: 'What our findings indicate is that female and male physicians practice medicine differently, and these differences have a meaningful…

New AI designed CRISPR editor - OpenCRISPR-1 'Design of highly functional genome editors by modeling the universe of CRISPR-Cas sequences' biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
Connecticut College (Connecticut College) Psych Dept is hiring a visiting assistant professor. The position is focused on Health Psychology, with an emphasis on promoting health equity (due 4/29 for full consideration). Details here: apply.interfolio.com/144592

Very excited to share that our DELiVR method is now open access published @NatureMethods. We created a simple, brain-wide cell analysis deep learning tool, no coding needed! Fiji Plugin makes it accessible to all. nature.com/articles/s4159…
by Doris Kaltenecker Rami @[email protected]

Neurons? Brainbow? No, my wife and daughter in a colorful forest in Meow Wolf Santa Fe.

I think there is a lot of potential for a science-based cover of Barbie Girl by Aqua #Barbie #Chemistry

I am thrilled to announce the launch of The Africa HealthTech Podcast!  Join me & my guests as we delve into the fascinating world of cutting-edge healthcare technologies in Africa.  Stay tuned for our first episode which will premiere on World Malaria Day.

Utterly amazing AI generated operatic song about protein folding

If you are in New Mexico next week and want to know

Where do Scientific Misinformation And Bad Science Come From? What Are Their Consequences?

Come to my seminar.

Congratulations to @DemisHassabis and John Jumper who received the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work on #AlphaFold , an AI system to predict the 3D structure of proteins. 🧬

Find out more. → dpmd.ai/3JFJgKV

Mario Nawfal Glowing Marvel: Discovering the Magic of Bioluminescent Mushrooms 🍄✨

At the UNM Stable Isotope Center to see my daughter give a talk about her research. Using Aa stable isotopes of stripped bass scales to establish where they summer in the Hudson..seawater, estuary or freshwater.