Congrats Ajay Tijore et al! Happy that #confinement #mechanobiology can help address so many interesting questions!

In this piece of brain tissue the size of sand grain are 200,000 neurons and nearly 2.5 miles of axons. While it may seem small in size, it was previously thought impossible to map. The road to this beautiful image is both a scientific and human triumph: alleninstitute.org/news/scientist…

Thrilled that our newest work led by Avery, Dr. Wisniewski, and Panagiotis Mistriotis is out today in Nature Materials! We show how the cytokinesis proteins Anillin and Ect2 drive RhoA/ROCK/myosin-mediated invasion in confining spaces in vitro and in vivo. doi.org/10.1038/s41563….

What I didn't expect to read today: Viagra (Sildenafil) can boost the immune response against cancer Viagra helps natural killer cells migrate to lymph nodes – from tumours – where where they meet and activate T cells

🧠 May's most-read #Neuroscience paper used stem cells to model how a key protein goes rogue in #ALS: elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr… Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: elifesciences.org/about/aims-sco…

Forget how your biology textbooks depicted the endoplasmic reticulum. @hhmijanelia scientist Andrew Moore used our open graphics tool AGAVE to create this image showing the ER's outer membrane. The tool borrows animation studio techniques to create realistic light sources.

The fireworks in your mind. 🧠✨ This sparkling video shows the neurotransmitter glutamate being released into synapses, made possible by an indicator developed by Abhi Aggarwal, Kaspar Podgorski, and team. #HappyNewYear #NYE

How do cells link adhesion to protein synthesis? New findings suggest the protein p130Cas forms droplets that bud from focal adhesions and suppress translation, hinting at a novel mechanism for regulating cell state via phase separation. elifesciences.org/articles/96157…

You're looking at the sharpest image of atoms ever taken. Scientists zoomed in 100 million times to capture the atomic world.

Troponin I (slow skeletal) is our #CellLineOfTheWeek! ❤️🔬 Our human stem cell lines & plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to scientific discovery. 🧫🚀 📦 Distributed by Coriell Institute & Addgene #OpenScience

Briefly on #septin

In new study from Muziyue Wu et al. Weiner Lab, in vivo biochemistry sheds new light on how the WAVE complex templates the characteristic shape of lamellipodial protrusions. hubs.la/Q03xvbW90 #Cytoskeleton #Actin #Migration #Motility #Biophysics

Only in Russia will thousands of people gather to celebrate…a cucumber 😁🥒

They played Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar soundtrack in Cologne Cathedral. Surreal.

I remember everyone was putting together a proposal on this problem. So did we. These are mine. How naive we were……

University Tenure At the elite university where I worked, tenure was sold as a guarantee. During recruitment, I was told it was a lifetime appointment, that my salary was protected, and that tenure came with rights like free speech and due process. Some claims were verbal others

"Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning" By Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov, and Lavrent'ev. A pretty good overview of many subject areas of math. Over 1000 pages. Archive: archive.org/details/Mathem…

Finally! My PhD work is out in Journal of Cell Biology 😀 Thanks to everyone involved at Yuseff Lab, Sara Hernández Pérez and Pieta Mattila . It took a while but was completely worth it 🙌