Yes, you've heard it right. It's FREE. And wonderful speakers. See you all in Kobe Japan in March!

New insights from the Hiiragi group show that the variability in how and when cells divide during embryonic development isn't an obstacle. Contrary to what scientists traditionally believed, this variability promotes healthy development. Dimitri Fabrèges hubrecht.eu/variability-ce…

#NEW 🚨Former 🇹🇼President Tsai’s trip to UK cancelled to avoid upsetting Beijing ahead of David Lammy China visit. With Tsai going to the 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇿, this is notably weak from the UK. Taiwan shouldn’t be punished for being a reliable partner who doesn’t throw their diplomatic

Numbers always tell an interesting story. • RoseTTAFold from David Baker’s lab: 9 out of 32 authors are women, representing 28% female authorship. • AlphaFold from DeepMind: 4 out of 34 authors are women, making up only 12% female authorship.

"Selective utilization of glucose metabolism guides mammalian gastrulation" nature.com/articles/s4158…

How do cells response to withdrawal of amino acids? It depends on the amino acid. ◼️Lysine withdrawal causes immediate cell-cycle stalling while the withdrawal of other amino acids allow for completion of additional cell cycles.

For my international colleagues who are wondering what the heck is going in in the Netherlands: Dutch Academia is facing the largest budget cuts since the 1980s. Programs will disappear, work load will go up, students will be penalised. It's grim 1/x

Another paper attempting to make "photosynthetic animal cells." This one from a Japanese team. They isolated chloroplasts from red algae, confirmed that they still had a functional photosystem II, and then implanted those chloroplasts into Chinese Hamster Ovary cells. But then,

Excited to announce that I will start my group at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona next April! We will decode and engineer cell fates using stem cell models, perturbation screening and single-cell multiomics. Looking forward to the new chapter ahead!

Are you interested in moving to Sweden for a postdoc, perhaps in my lab? Take a look at the PULSE program for international postdocs and drop me a line if you are interested in this opportunity and maybe writing an application together! scilifelab.se/research/pulse…

Researchers from The Clevers Lab created an organoid that mimics the human fetal pancreas. Unlike previous models, this organoid has all three key cell types. They also identified the stem cell that develops into these cells. Curious? hubrecht.eu/researchers-cr… Amanda Andersson Rolf Roche

Inhibition of the PI3K-AKT-MTORC1 axis reduces the burden of the m.3243A>G mtDNA mutation by promoting mitophagy and improving mitochondrial function tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Horrifying scenes in Taiwan's legislature today, as rogue KMT legislators violently attacked DPP legislators, in order to push through 3 rogue bills—they pushed Huang Jie to the floor, threw Ariel Chang to the wall, kicked and beat Chen Pei-yu, and Lin Chu-Yin injured her arm.

Taiwan legislator Huang Jie: Perhaps democracy may die, but as long as KMT does not die, we will keep fighting!

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今天是大年初四，春節快樂！想看點台灣史的東西嗎？這篇高菊花文章，超級長，歹勢！高菊花是高一生的女兒，原本有非常美好的未來，也為這樣的未來努力著。高一生被處決後，她的人生完全變調，女性、原住民、政治犯之女，三重弱勢，被黨國壓迫剝削做那讓她一生自卑自棄的服務。telltaiwan.org/?p=10645

Taiwanese. Hong Kongers. Uyghurs. Tibetans. Chinese dissidents. Cross-party MPs. Together against the 🇨🇳 mega embassy.

Excited to share our opinion piece on why current standard cell culture practices deserve more consideration - with implications on cell metabolism and beyond! We focus in particular on nutrient and oxygen availability. A pleasure to work with Jason R. Cantor lab! Daniel Fazakerley Inst Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Labs

We are recruiting PIs at all levels 中央研究院 Academia Sinica IMB Academia Sinica, with guaranteed life-term stable intramural grant support until you retire! We dont need to make anything great again, as we have been always GREAT! nature.com/articles/d4158…