Biochemistry textbooks need an update, according to Thijn Brummelkamp's research group at the NKI. They discovered that human cells can produce fuel through a different pathway than what was previously known. Their findings are published in Nature today ➡️ bit.ly/44rU5I9

A very nice News & Views from Jean Schaffer highlighting our TMX1-DIESL paper, putting alternative triglyceride synthesis into context and featuring important, outstanding questions nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congratulations to Piet Borst, 2023 #LaskerAward winner! – “for an exceptional 50-year career of scientific discovery, mentorship, and leadership”. ow.ly/cuFl50PNTMJ #Lasker2023 #LaskerLaureate #mtDNA #mitochondria #trypanosomes

Fantastic perspective in PNAS covering Piet Borst's fundamental contributions across many (!) fields #LaskerAward pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Happy to share our collaborative study with Niels Mailand where we used haploid genetic screens to uncover a new role for the E3 Ubiquitin ligase TOPORS in DNA-protein crosslink resolution and beyond! Thijn Brummelkamp Julio L biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy are not a cure for obesity, or the stigma associated with it, “but, for many millions of people, our post-Ozempic world will be better than the one we lived in before,” Dhruv Khullar writes. nyer.cm/FFElk4c

Feeling incredibly privileged to have received the The Netherlands Cancer Institute AvL award this evening, and deeply grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey!

Here is an open link to: Basic Science is not just a Foundation. (Nature Cell Biology, Volume 26, pages 8–10 (2024): rdcu.be/dv82R

Happy to share our recent work let by postdoc verenalink (she/her) published today in Nature Medicine. 👩‍🔬🥳Ketogenic and vegan diet differentially impact human immune system, microbiome and metabolism. (1/7) 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4159…

This paper is so cool and combines two aspects of cell biology that I really love - moonlighting functions of well-studied proteins, and how the cell recognizes and deals with factors/molecules that end up in the wrong cellular compartment. nature.com/articles/s4155…

It has been fantastic to reconnect with the awesome #mitochondria community at a great meeting, and grateful for the opportunity to present our most recent work!

Please RT and help us get the word out. Scott Dixon @sjd956 and I are co-organizing the first FASEB #Ferroptosis conference this summer! Awesome line up of speakers and room for additional short talks! Save the date & come join us July 27 - 31, 2025! 🤩events.faseb.org/event/11797f9e…

Guess what? Mitochondria are weirder than we thought