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Help uncover the immune mechanisms behind PANS/PANDAS & related neuroinflammatory disorders. Join PPN in supporting the groundbreaking work of the Agalliu Lab & Dr. Uğur Akcan — research that can transform care & bring hope to children & families. tinyurl.com/cvx3jzcj

Today, a decision to increase ERC support for researchers moving to Europe was adopted. On top of normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories/research teams in Europe. This extra is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

Blood-brain barrier permeability varies by brain region and APOE4 stat... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It’s time again for Cell Biology at Scale (CB@S), an annual gathering for researchers from diverse disciplines to share ideas on how new technologies can transform #cellbiology! Co-hosted by #CZBiohubNY & Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Learn more and register: czbiohub.org/events/cell-bi…

Why do the brain’s professional phagocytes stop clearing amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease? Can we restore microglial superpowers & rescue dying neurons in AD? YES, by stopping DGAT2-mediated lipid droplet formation! Check out our manuscript Immunity 👇🏼 cell.com/immunity/abstr…

Jack Draper rocking a new haircut at Roland Garros 💈

The NIH has proposed making all Institute Directors political appointees which would inject politics into scientific decisions & bring instability to scientific leadership. Please object by clicking on the green “public comment” button at the top: federalregister.gov/documents/20... .

VITAL PANDAS/PANS research is being threatened because of federal funding cuts at Columbia. Our children deserve better. Please donate what you can today! Dritan Agalliu joinus.cuimc.columbia.edu/index.cfm?fuse…

It took us some time to revise this manuscript but we are one step closer to publishing it. Please have a look at the evolution of how Rab7a regulates acute BBB breakdown in ischemic stroke biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Solving the "replication crisis" is dumb because (1) it's not a crisis, (2) the medicine is worse than the disease. Much of this is because people want science to be more like engineering, and it's not. It's fundamentally different and trying to treat engineering processes like

I’d like to sincerely thank @NNwpnn for their generous support of our PANDAS/PANS research. Their contribution will help us move forward and make meaningful progress in our work. We truly appreciate it! 🙏💙

The FINAL EIGHT is officially set. #RolandGarros

Drs. Brenda Gutierrez and Lisa Flanagan led this study showing that human #endothelial cell contact promotes human type B cells via Notch signaling and these cells are in contact in stem cell niches in the human brain. 🧠 📖 Full story in Nature Communications: go.nature.com/3T9unF2

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (no paywall) nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancelation of federal research awards. Link in next post

#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab. Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/3HoP39O

Polygenic risk score (PRS) tools are getting better and better! Yue Li & team at McGill report a major update to their PRS software, VIPRS (variational inference of polygenic risk scores) — now lightning fast & ultra-efficient. VIPRS reads ultra-compressed LD matrices (MBs not

Are you looking for a home for your research on stem cell biology and/or organoids? Our Associate Editor Aryeh Warmflash handles papers on these topics. #ISSCR2025 Reasons to submit to JCS: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/reas… Subject Collection: journals.biologists.com/jcs/collection…

Congratulations Teresa! Well-deserved!