1) Your well-being must be your priority.   It's easy to become so focused on the end goal that we sacrifice all to get there.   But if you arrive at your destination as a hollow shell of who you are, you have missed the mark of building a better life in the very pursuit of it.

As someone from an extremely poor background who excelled academically (perfect scores in math meets, captain of mock trial team, award for highest state test scores, etc), this merit argument is a joke. It was hard at every level for me to succeed in academic environments:

Has a similar study ever been done for US Congressman and Senators? What about CEOs?

Additionally, this data is another reason why medical schools should feel morally OBLIGATED to ensure a more diverse pipeline of physicians. They should be investing in programs in low-income communities to ensure the physician population accurately represents the patient pop.

As a Ph.D. student, my income surpassed that of my parents combined. Although leaving them behind left me with a sense of guilt, it also filled me with pride to be able to help. As first-generation students, we often experience these conflicting emotions throughout our journey.

My ancestors wildest dreams, my ancestors wildest dreams!

Since the discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems, people have wondered if a similar type of system exists in eukaryotes. Today, we report in nature the characterization of Fanzor, a eukaryotic RNA-guided system that can be reprogrammed for human genome editing. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table. In the

Amazing S2P2 Alumni Oral Presentations! #S2P2_Symposium #SACNAS Special shout out to old SACNAS/SPINES leader Vanessa Yanez, PhD

Appreciation Post Alert!Last Thursday in our #S2P2, we had the chance to share with the Tufts #alumni that paved the road for Tufts SACNAS: Dr. Jesús A. Romo, and Vanessa Yanez, PhD. Thanks for setting up the stepping stone for our #organization! SACNAS #dei #appreciationpost

🚨 Today, we’re thrilled to share our study expanding the gene editing toolbox to enable virtually any kind of edit in gene transcripts at the order of thousands of bases. A thread 🧵👇(1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The first molecular age of the eye clock: identifying ~6,000 proteins (via liquid biopsies from 120 patients) and multiomics #AI cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Cell

Just saying we can help, means so much.

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let’s help girls everywhere pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Our world is better with their ideas and perspectives.

Jim Collins' voice is so memorable. I'll never forget BU undergrad class, Signals and Systems, lectured by him. Every class I was very excited to listen and take notes. I think I may still even have that notebook.

Okay now I'm really curious. How do people acquire a story-telling styles that keep people listening? Probably obvious to others but there's a style of pause and cadence that sticks. How do you know what sticks? And how do you adapt to it as a speaker?

Just heard from another family that we've partnered with and things are looking good. while just an observational study, kids are improving while on a drug that we discovered in a fly screen.

Delivery, delivery, delivery! Join us in Siracusa, Italy from April 4-7 to discuss new advances in nucleic acid delivery and how to solve the remaining challenges! Don't miss this opportunity. Abstract deadline is March 15, 2024. Register here: engconf.us/conferences/bi…

I am humbled by the response to this and I have one ask. Can you share this post so that we can get 75K likes? It is the most impactful thing Sandra Abrevaya and I can do to save our democracy.

This headline made my head hurt. It's contradictory.