Cancer continues to threaten millions of lives But to witness a stage IV patient enter remission, having received not a drop of chemotherapy but rather immunotherapy, is a near-miracle I didn’t foresee when my career began Not all tears in an oncology clinic are shed in sadness

Lucid summary of facts implicating a zoonotic origin. Penn BGS let’s use our #sciencesense and educate others (family/friends) thanks for pointing to this E. John Wherry

BREAKING: The Biden Administration has just approved ConocoPhillips's Willow oil project, ignoring pleas from millions who called for the Alaska oil-drilling plan to be halted due to concerns about climate change. 🧵

Genuinely inspiring quote for researchers

Ringer’s solution is really just Gatorade for the cells when you think about it.

Philadelphia officials advised residents they may want to switch to bottled water Sunday afternoon to avoid ingesting chemicals spilled into a tributary of the Delaware River in Bucks County Friday night. trib.al/gCVD4yK

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There should be public outrage, frankly, over the fact that OB/GYN departments receive only 1% of NIH research funding. OB/GYN and our specialties provide the majority of care and surgery women receive in a lifetime, but ONE PERCENT of the research dollars. This is a crisis.

This story is absolutely heartbreaking. Please consider helping this family if you’re able. gofundme.com/f/nf36y-cover-…

New arxiv posting ( arxiv.org/abs/2305.14338 )! Matt Smart, Stas Shvartsman (twitterless) and I developed a mathematical model for the generation of cell networks by intracellular oscillations. This study is motivated by networks of germ cells formed by incomplete divisions.

Our first neurogenetic study of ants survived peer review and just appeared OA in its final form Cell Cell Press: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…. Taylor & team Rockefeller University created the first transgenic ants and identified a sensory hub for alarm behavior. 1/8

Today the #SCOTUS upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in an opinion authored by Justice Barrett. Much of the fight has been left for another day--in that #SCOTUS declined to reach some of the thorniest issues. But ICWA survives. So much to learn here. supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…

Beautiful new work from SpiliotisLab and grad student Yani Suber! Congrats!!

Congrats Katy Ong PhD !! This is fascinating work! Amazing first paper with David Bilder

I’m so excited that my thesis work from Steve DiNardo lab is finally out in the world! We address how a stem cell niche forms, and how niche shape impacts its function. Additionally, we show that stem cells aid in shaping the niche that guides their behavior biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

On #MentalHealthDay2023 I’d like to remind everyone that iron is a REQUIRED cofactor in the synthesis of serotonin and dopamine. And almost 40% of menstruating adolescents are deficient. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

So exciting to see a preprint coming from my home lab. Congratulations Tiffany!