Martin Polz lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): Defining bacterial populations by examining recent HGT events can shed light on interspecies relationships in the environment and in the human microbiome Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Large-Scale Analyses of Human Microbiomes Reveal Thousands of Small, Novel Genes cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Free essential summer reading: bit.ly/2YTRtWE Koo & Guan discuss the emerging roles of YAP and TAZ in metabolism by focusing on their role as integrators for metabolic cues and cell growth.

Centrifuging rad samples in glass tubes is very stressful...

Our study now Nature Communications. Development and application of computational methodology to study metabolism in the tumor microenvironment at single cell resolution. Resource for cancer metabolism in vivo in human tumors. Congratulations everyone! nature.com/articles/s4146…

cnn.com/2019/09/07/us/… UT rocks!

Zebrafish ladies! 🦓🐟Caitlin Murdoch, PhD

Microbial Metabolite Signaling Is Required for Systemic Iron Homeostasis dlvr.it/RMfRc0

Ten-Hour Time-Restricted Eating Reduces Weight, Blood Pressure, and Atherogenic Lipids in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome dlvr.it/RMlFhH

Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety nyti.ms/33D3zTi

AMPK is activated by long-chain fatty acyl–CoA esters LCFAs, which could be the long-sought endogenous #AMPK ligands that bind to the allosteric drug and metabolite (ADaM) site. Research from Greg_Steinberg McMaster University nature.com/articles/s4225…

My first paper John F. Rawls using zebrafish to study the bile-Fxr-microbiota relationship and to uncover new roles of Fxr in different intestinal cell types identified by our single cell RNAseq.

Almost $1 MILLION was raised for the elderly grandma who beat up her attacker. She was badly hurt & traumatized. Today, her grandson shared that 75yo Xiao Zhen Xie wants to donate ALL of the money to #StopAsianHate. Asian grandmas 🥺❤️

NYPD says 65-year-old Asian American woman was walking to church this morning when suspect assaulted her and said “f*** you, you don’t belong here.” Happened in front of 360 W. 43rd St. 11:40am. Sources say building security guard not only failed to render her aid... 1/2

Chinese Grandma Who Fought Off Attacker to Donate Over $900K from GoFundMe to AAPI Community yahoo.com/entertainment/…

There is more to life than “mice and men”. We examined the rules governing bile salt metabolism in a different vertebrate model, the zebrafish, to gain insights on the co-evolution among the host, the microbes, and the bile salts. Read more: advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/30/e…

A new study finds that multiple components of bile salt metabolism and signaling have been conserved between zebrafish and mammals over 420 million years of evolution. fcld.ly/zsml69y

#ResearchHighlight | John F. Rawls and colleagues explore bile salt–FXR signaling in #zebrafish nature.com/articles/s4168…

Just heard that Alan Hofmann, a true giant in the GI field, has passed away aged 90. He was such an inspiration throughout my career, and I treasure the fact that his office was right next to mine during my early years on the faculty. Sincere condolences to his wife and family.

Shocking video shows a group of female youths, one in a hijab, brutally beating two passive Asian people on a SEPTA train in Philadelphia on Wednesday near Erie Station. x.com/libsoftiktok/s…