Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Feeling tense? Macrophages sense that! Macrophages prefer to "nibble" (trogocytose) soft targets and "engulf" (phagocytose) stiff ones. Stiffness matters for immune responses! #preprint #FletcherLab Check out the #preLight written by @fadelvalle.bsky.social prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...prelights.biologists.comTarget cell tension regulates macrophage trogocytosis - preLightsFeeling tense? Macrophages sense that! Macrophages prefer to "nibble" (trogocytose) soft targets and "engulf" (phagocytose) stiff ones. Stiffness matters for immune responses! 062
Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/01/2025PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot 172122863220
Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/12/2024"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing." This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon': - None of the ants understand the problem they're solving. - None of them can see the whole shape. - A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity. 341301437
Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov 441198491
Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻Josh Moore @joshmoore.bsky.social · 04/12/2024"Scientists collaborate — funders must, too" @dartar.bsky.social & @k8hert.bsky.social www.statnews.com/sponsor/2024...statnews.comNew report highlights the scientific impact of open source softwareTwo of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing 03017
lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻 @blenackmon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I am in love with this technique! And there is more to come! ✨️ 010
Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻Fletcher Lab @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Excited to share our latest paper: SurFlex microscopy! A new technique to measure the flexibility of surface-tethered biomolecules. Congrats to Aymeric, @sid592.bsky.social and @blenackmon.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 141
Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024NEW preprint!🥳 Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves the inference of orthogroups (blue in fig) OrthoHMM may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life 🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6 🧵 1/8 39946
lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻 @blenackmon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Really interesting work regarding influenza virus motility! 120
Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻Elio Abbondanzieri @abbondanzieri.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Excited to share this new paper I helped with where we turned E. coli into tiny microlenses! Thread below. @meyerroc.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 4469
lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻 @blenackmon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Another excellent study led by Dr. Cornell 😎 010
Reposted by lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻Fletcher Lab @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Do you find yourself curious about the eating habits of macrophages? Check out our new preprint to discover the biophysical principles that guide macrophage behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1137
lena blackmon 🦠🔬💻 @blenackmon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024me at a lake somewhere in N. California, modeling propagation of an electric dipole and laughing maniacally 010