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Barbara Gerratana

@bgerratana.bsky.social
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Science driven evidence, biotechnology, synthetic biology, health, cancer, alternative food The opinions expressed are those of the individual alone and do not reflect those of EISMEA, the EIC or the European Commission.

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American Society of Clinical Oncology @ascocancer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Overflow room needed for packed #ASCO26 joint session with @theaacr.bsky.social on the story of targeting KRAS, clinical updates on KRAS inhibitors, and novel approaches to targeting KRAS chaired by ASCO President Dr. Eric Small & AACR President Dr. Lillian Siu. Livestream going in room S100a.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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Victor de Lorenzo (CNB, Madrid) @vdlorenzo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
One of the most original stories I have heard in the @femsmicro.org Congress thus far is the proposition by Rachel Armstrong to develop bioreceptive construction materials for functionalizing built surfaces eg catalytic walls with natural or genet eng microorganisms 😱
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
#SynBYSS Thur 10 am USA CT 167th, Jul 17: Prof Tim Bugg at University of Warwick & Dr Erin Garza at JCVI @jcvi.org 168th, Jul 24: Dr Emma Yee, an Editor at Cell & Prof Miguel Jimenez at Boston Univ. @cellpress.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social Zoom for the audience: us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
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Max Fürst @maxfus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Fantastic opportunity at my postdoc institute 👇If you have any questions about a TT, life in Cambridge, the LMB or the PNAC division feel free to reach out !
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SUMO @sumoconsortium.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We updated our website supervised-morphogenesis.eu! New links to data-sets, code & publications. Check it out! #EIC #EICPathfinder #HorizonEU #gastruloids #embryomodels #EngineeredLivingMaterial @bgerratana.bsky.social
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SUMO – SUpervised MOrphogenesis – Supervised Morphogenesis
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Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Finally, thanks to the funding that made this dream project possible: @maxplanck.de, Bf3R, Stiftung SET, EIC #EICPathfinder @ec.europa.eu @bgerratana.bsky.social
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 19/04/2025
Mr. Trump—I’ve known Chris Van Hollen since the last century, and the last thing anyone who knows him would call him is a grandstander. He’s a defender of human rights. You should meet with him—you could learn something. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump White House Lashes Out At Senator Who Visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia In El Salvador
"GRANDSTANDER!!!" the president wrote on social media. He later smeared the Maryland immigrant's character, as well.
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Leibniz INM @leibnizinm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
While we're embedding biofactories in contact lenses to make them smarter, others are integrating electronics and sensors. At our Techtransfer day event, we'll meet the pioneers in this sector and talk to industry experts on their vision of the future! www.linkedin.com/events/techt...
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TechTransferDay - Smart Contact Lenses: Embedded Technologies beyond Vision | LinkedIn
Tomorrow’s contact lenses will leverage our capabilities to perceive and interact with the world around us. Augmented reality contact lenses will enable navigation and communication without the need o...
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Congrats to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing & prime editing: 2 breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation. hhmi.news/3RA6shj
HHMI Investigator David R. Liu, smiling, with a graphic of a DNA helix in the background. Text overlay announces his award of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 01/04/2025
Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation
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Tae Seok Moon @taeseokmoon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
2025 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course in Synthetic Biology - apply! Deadline: April 14, 2025 Financial Aid: Stipend awards are available. Notifications: Applicants will be notified by May 15, 2025. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is. So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 22/03/2025
Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...
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🔭 The Einstein AI model
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a compressed 21st century.
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Deeply concerned about NSF. They fired more people than they needed and now leadership is illegally reclassifying employees as probationary. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says
National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.
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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London 🎉🚨🇬🇧🫖 If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/03/2025
The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to El Salvador, arguing that the court should end its “continued intrusions” into the authority of the executive branch.
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Justice Department resists judge's demand for more details on deportation flights signaling legal showdown
It’s the latest development in a showdown between the Trump administration and the judge who temporarily blocked deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/03/2025
RFK Jr. suggests the bird flu should be allowed to spread unchecked to identify birds that could be immune.
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RFK Jr. Unveils Disturbing Plan to Combat Bird Flu
Trump’s health secretary has proposed the worst idea, as egg prices continue to skyrocket.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/03/2025
Trump’s new economic constraints on the NSF and NIH deliver another self-inflicted wound to American progress—derailing decades of biological and biomedical research. Doctoral candidates nationwide are already feeling the sting.
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Put American innovation first by funding the NSF and NIH
The Trump administration is risking Americans' health and safety by cutting science and research funding.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19/03/2025
Ben & Jerry's alleges its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker's social and political activism.
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Ben & Jerry's alleges parent company Unilever removed its CEO over social activism
Ben & Jerry’s says its CEO was unlawfully removed by its parent company, Unilever, in retaliation for the ice cream maker’s social and political activism.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Email sent to FDA staff informs that agency leadership canceled the agency's LexisNexis subscription, even though staff need this tool to research legal and regulatory information as part of their jobs. I'm reproducing the text of the email here:
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 19/03/2025
Canadian consumers are responding to U.S. tariffs and presidential musings of annexation with a “Buy Canadian” movement that retailers and producers are swiftly embracing
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Bye America, Buy Canadian: Consumers, Retailers Change Tack to Counter Tariff Stresses
Canadian consumers are responding to U.S. tariffs and presidential musings of annexation with a “Buy Canadian” movement that retailers and producers are swiftly embracing.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
More than 600 NOAA workers were laid off. This week, federal government reinstated some of them, but they were placed on administrative leave and have not been asked to return to work. No one seems to know what this means - and how it will affect services in wake of severe storms nbcnews.to/4iE0WGj
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Fired workers are reinstated at NOAA, creating confusion on the heels of severe storms
The agency had already halted several services because of staffing issues following the cuts, including some weather balloon launches. It is not clear whether those will resume.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/03/2025
French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is insane. Arguably the greatest achievement of the first Trump administration was Operation Warp Speed. And mRNA technology has tremendous potential. Recall recent news that mRNA vaccines show promise against pancreatic cancer in early trials www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/03/2025
NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i
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NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/03/2025
“This is going to be a massive loss of life overall,” a surgeon who formerly led USAID’s global health initiatives tells TNR. “Children are likely already dying, and will clearly be dying in large numbers.”
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Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
"Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns
‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/03/2025
"America does not need a 'resistance,' or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
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Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/03/2025
Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
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LoopOfFun @loopoffun.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Great insights into the EIC ELMs Portfolio! LoopOfFun is excited to see the progress made in 2024 and looking forward to more collaboration and achievements within the Portfolio in 2025. Thank you, @bgerratana.bsky.social and SYMMONS Orsolya for all your supports! #EUeic #EICPathfinder #ELMs
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PRISM-LT @prism-livingtissues.eu · 25/02/2025
There is a new #HorizonEU project on Bluesky! This one is special. Like us, they are part of the @ec.europa.eu European Innovation Council’s portfolio on Engineered Living Materials (ELMs)! 🙌 They use fungi to create ELMs with controlled mechanical and structural properties! ⚙️ 🍄 #EUeic
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 17/02/2025
Capitol rioters are arguing that President Trump’s pardons for offenses committed that day should also absolve them of other alleged crimes, some discovered during Jan. 6 investigations
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Jan. 6 Rioters Argue Pardons Apply to Charges Including Murder Plot, Child Porn
Defendants are arguing that President Trump’s pardon for offenses related to the storming of the Capitol should also absolve them of other alleged crimes, some discovered during Jan. 6 investigations.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 17/02/2025
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred FAA employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision
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Trump Starts Firing FAA Staff Just Weeks After Fatal DC Crash
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal ...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...
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PRISM-LT @prism-livingtissues.eu · 13/02/2025
Special thanks to @bgerratana.bsky.social (EIC), @Orsolya Symmons (EIC), and Constantinos Ziogas (EMA) for their opening remarks and to Falk Ehmann and Laura Martinelli (INsociety) for moderating the conversations on classification, safety assessments, and clinical trials for ELM-based products. 🙌
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PRISM-LT @prism-livingtissues.eu · 10/11/2023
Our cross-European team is experienced in synthetic biology, materials engineering, morphogenesis, and ethical, legal and social aspects. Learn more about us at prism-livingtissues.eu/consortium/
Map of Europe showing the locations of 6 institutions participating in the PRISM-LT project.
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PRISM-LT @prism-livingtissues.eu · 10/11/2023
We are part of a portfolio of European projects using engineered living materials to produce new sustainable materials for textiles, bioprinting, tissues and beyond! Get to know @sumoconsortium.bsky.social and the other portfolio members at prism-livingtissues.eu/related-proj...
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EIC Engineered Living Materials Portfolio
PRISM-LT is part of a portfolio of projects funded under the Engineered Living Materials Pathfinder Challenge by the European Innovation Council.
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PRISM-LT @prism-livingtissues.eu · 16/11/2023
Our partners from the Institute for Science in Society at Radboud University discussed alternative food and materials production in exciting public debates! “Participants shared their views on sustainability and the importance of terminology.” Follow the link for more insights and revelations!
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Public debates explore the political and personal dimensions of engineered living materials and cult...
Diverse voices explore perspectives and share insights with project partners Laurens Landeweerd and Martina Baumann.
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PRISM-LT @prism-livingtissues.eu · 13/12/2023
Watch these accounts if you are interested in biofabrication technologies like bioinks for 3D bioprinting self-organising structures! 🏗️🧫 Our EU-funded project pairs some of these techniques with microorganisms to help cells differentiate into hybrid tissues for food and health applications! 🦠 🔜 🥩🏥
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PRISM-LT @prism-livingtissues.eu · 19/12/2023
A new engineered living material to help study lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. “It includes microbial communities mimicking biofilms from patients…to study the impact of antibiotics.” Read the Matter article at: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/matter www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scienti...
A close-up of a model of cystic fibrosis (i.e., infected lung epithelial tissue) showing three types of bacterial communities, including Staphylococcus (pink), Candida Albicans (green), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (blue), growing as a biofilm over epithelial cells.
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