Photos & RNAseq data from Arabidopsis Thaliana🌾 grown in regolith brought back from Apollo 11, 12, 17 🌘 in NASA Open Science Data Repository (expansion of NASAGeneLab ) 🎉🚀 NASASpaceSci NASAArtemis NASAMoon UF Space Plants 📣 What more can you discover with these data?

I dislike Taleb in a lot of ways, but his greatest contribution to knowledge is this Medium post, a chapter from SKIN IN THE GAME, about the intransigent minority.

Explains Columbia, explains trans rights, explains every social issue we've been dealing with.…

Present your best work at ISMB: Submit late breaking methods research or take the #CAMDA challenge! Due 20 May 👉camda.info. Join us & our distinguished keynote speakers, Catherine Lozupone of University of Colorado and andrey rzhetsky of UChicago Biological Sciences! #EHRs #gut #microbiome ISCB News Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology UJ

Lars Velten Michael Scherer Indranil Singh Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli, PhD Chris Mason EPI-Clone captures hundreds of clonal trajectories across thousands of single cells, enabling the identification of expanded hematopoietic clones during aged human hematopoiesis. Applicable to space samples?

I had much fun at the The Explorers Club Annual Dinner catching up with many friends from the NASA Astronaut Office including Scott Kelly, Moonwalker Charlie Duke, Nicole Stott, Frank Culbertson, and Mike Lopez-Algeria, I’m happy that we are still making great memories…

Guess who's blasting off to #SynBioBeta2024 ? That's right – Kate Rubins, NASA astronaut and molecular biologist, will speak at SynBioBeta 2024 on May 7th at 8:40 AM. Join Kate, Chris Mason (@mason_lab), and Ivan R. Jaubert (@SynBioBeta) as they explore Interstellar Humans:…

Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

'NASA discovered bacteria that wouldn't die. Now it's boosting sunscreen'... and more things soon! mashable.com/article/nasa-b…

The SpaceX @Inspiration4x launch, endlessly flowing from the pad all the way to orbit.

Composite of multiple tracking telescopes using new techniques to bring out the faintest colors and finest details--in 10K resolution.

#EndlessInspiration

Discovery and description of novel phage genomes from urban microbiomes sampled by the MetaSUB consortium! nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are on the cover of Cancer Cell! Check out our latest story on ARID1A and BAF remodeling complex in lymphoma: doi.org/10.1016/j.ccel…
Led by Darko Barisic Christopher Chin.
WCM Lymphoma Weill Cornell Medicine Meyer Cancer Center Weill Cornell Medicine Cancer Cell

NSUN5/TET2-directed chromatin-associated RNA modification of 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine governs glioma immune evasion pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I've been closely tracking R&D around PURE: a completely defined cell-free system for protein synthesis.

New results demonstrated a path towards self-regeneration of all 36 non-ribosomal proteins—a step towards 'a universal biochemical constructor and living synthetic cell.'

Accidental art - a thread 🧵

1. A rock-created bird shaped chip on a car windshield

Each June, swabbers in 60+ cities worldwide take to subways, buses, airports, hospitals, and other public spaces to sample their environments & contribute data to MetaSUB. Find out more about Chris Mason‘s MetaSUB program.
wewillcure.com/insights/why-i…

Join Columbia Space Initiative Friday at from 10:00 - 1:00 p.m. for Spaceposium, our annual technical mission poster presentation, and at 4:00 p.m. EDT in Mudd 833 to hear from Eliah G. Overbey 🇺🇸🧬🚀, space biologist at BioAstra and Chris Mason. #SpaceX #ColumbiaUniversity

Try your best & take the #CAMDA challenge! Share late breaking methods! Abstracts due 20 May 👉camda.info - Join us ISMB/ECCB Conference and discuss Advances in #Gut #Microbiome Analysis with our distinguished keynote speaker Catherine Lozupone of University of Colorado! @ISCB MetaSUB Research Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology UJ

Would you like a large part of your chromosomes changed? Here you go! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 'ReDACT (Restoring Disomy in Aneuploid cells using CRISPR Targeting)' chromosome engineering tools that can eliminate specific aneuploidies from cancer genomes' from Jason Sheltzer Yale School of Medicine

Woo! We got 510(k) clearance for our at-home blood sampling device thorne.com/press-releases… (note COI for Thorne). Bravo Jerome and team.

Eric Topol Chenhao Li Xavier Lab Broad Institute Cell Chris Mason Cem Braden Tierney