1/25 Part 1 - Why does soap work so well on the SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? Because it is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. A two part thread about soap, viruses and supramolecular chemistry #COVID19

Cue card for wearing surgical mask

Getting mask is not an easy task now. Why not make your own one? Here is the #hkmask. You only need cloth and kitchen towel to make it. Check out the website diymask.site to get the detail. The tutorial is in English, German, French, Dutch, Janpanese and Korean.

Interested in 3D gene regulation? Our group is recruiting MDC-BIMSB Single-cell omics + 3D chromatin organization + in vivo transgenic models Experimental / computational applicants both welcomed 👇 Postdoc: mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/po… PhD: mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/ph… Please RT🙏

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

We investigated why female moles develop as intersexual💪 A project led by the outstanding Fany Martinez Real (aka RealScience) & with the amazing MundlosLab A summarizing thread below👇 science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…

I am very excited to share our first evolution paper about moles and their intersexuality, check it out! And if you want to learn more about it, scroll down ;-) science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

Ever wondered how skates developed their enlarged fins? Check our latest work w/ Jose Luis Gomez Skar Dan Rokhsar Juan Tena Ferdinand Marlétaz #ElidelaCalle Tetsuya Nakamura Christina Paliou Insights on the origin of fins and on the evolution of 3D gene regulation. A thread 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Eaten alive at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn 😅 Thanks to Ina Arnone and Salvatore D'Aniello for organising such a wonderful retreat!!

Molecular boundaries prevent chaos in gene regulation: a team of researchers at the #mdcBerlin is reporting in Nature Genetics how such boundaries work: mdc-berlin.de/news/press/inf… MDC-BIMSB Darío G. Lupiáñez @chiara_anania Rafael Domínguez Acemel Janosch Deeg

The peer-reviewed version of our study on TAD boundaries is now published Nature Genetics This version includes new experiments that extend our initial findings. More info below 👇 (1/4) nature.com/articles/s4158…

BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

Great talks, great posters and great people. Super nice to discuss science in real person again. Definitely learn a lot. Already looking forward to next year’s meeting. #SCG2022

How is sex determined? How is it encoded in the #3Dgenome? Happy to share my PhD work. Sex-determining 3D regulatory hubs identified w METALoci, a new genome spatial auto-correlation approach With Juan A. Rodríguez Capel Lab Marc A. Marti-Renom @dariloops.bsky.social Thread 👇biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

💪🏻We broke the world record on number of theses defended in the same day. A memorable day and a reunion of past lab members Max Delbrück Center MDC-BIMSB 🎉 Two new Ph.Ds awarded. Well done Vicky Chung Irene Mota We are all proud of you

😀 I am deeply honored to receive the "Jose Luis Gómez Skarmeta" award, named after one of the scientists I admired most. Thanks for the SEBD and the committee for considering worthy of such a prestigious award (1/n)