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Gabriel Ortega

@gabolab.bsky.social
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Research lab at CIC bioGUNE (Bilbao, Spain). Biosensors, biomolecular engineering and protein biophysics. www.cicbiogune.es/people/gortega

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Kevin Plaxco @kwplaxco.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excited to announce that our technology has passed an important milestone on its journey towards the clinic. Breakthrough device designation is intended to accelerate the development, assessment, and review of potentially life-saving technologies for which no approved or cleared alternative exists.
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Nutromics Receives FDA Breakthrough Designation for Vancomycin TDM Patch | Nutromics posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Nutromics has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for our first product in development: a wearable patch for vancomycin therapeutic drug monitoring.   The FDA's Breakthrough Device Progra...
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is gold comedy! #NMR (aka Non-Meaningful-Research)
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very interesting work by Dorothy Kern and @hkws.bsky.social. They look at what's missing in NMR assignments, and use it to train a deep learning model for predicting protein dynamics. Clever approach! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nick Polizzi @nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thanks also to others in the lab who helped out along the way. Link to bioRxiv paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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De novo design of small-molecule-induced conformational change
Many biological proteins function by changing shape upon small-molecule binding. Here, we present a general strategy for designing de novo proteins that undergo small-molecule-induced conformational c...
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is a fantastic work, very powerful implications for biomolecular design and biosensing aplications!
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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1st genome sequenced (Sanger 1977), 1st genome synthesised (Venter 2003), 1st genome + proteome fully mutated (Huijin Xiangua 2026!) @crg.eu @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Complete Mutagenesis of the Genome and Proteome of ΦX174 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Complete Mutagenesis of the Genome and Proteome of ΦX174
The bacteriophage ΦX174 was the first genome to be sequenced and the first to be chemically synthesised. Here we present a complete map of the consequences of changing every nucleotide in the ΦX174 ge...
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
AI Raygun for shrinking proteins! Very nice work by @rohitsingh8080.bsky.social The naming is cool, but I also found concept of mimicking Natural protein evolution (insertions, deletions, mutations) very elegant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Miniaturizing and modifying natural proteins with Raygun - Nature
Probabilistic sequence encoding from language model embeddings within a generative AI framework enables protein miniaturization, modification and augmentation while maintaining native architectur...
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Rudolph A. “Rudy” Marcus, a Canadian-born US chemist whose work on electron transfer helped shape the entire field of chemistry, died on July 16 at age 102. He was a chemist at the California Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate: cen.acs.org/people/obitu... #chemsky 🧪
Rudy Marcus, developer of electron transfer theory, dies at 102.
Nobel laureate's discoveries in chemical kinetics advanced many fields of chemistry.
by Ananya Palivela.
A black-and-white picture of a smiling man in a suit and tie in front of a blackboard.
Credit: Alamy
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CIC bioGUNE @cicbiogune.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#bioGUNE_Seminars | 🔬 Thanks to Benjamí Oller IQS for his seminar at #CICbioGUNE Basque Research and Technology Alliance - BRTA about how VEGF about engineering conditionally active protein therapeutics and brain-delivery strategies for neurological diseases 📅 www.cicbiogune.es/activities
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Nature @nature.com · 25/06/2026
Nature research paper: Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins via neural iterative selection−expansion go.nature.com/4eZ6yeW
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Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins via neural iterative selection−expansion - Nature
 By pairing two neural networks in an iterative optimization algorithm, small-molecule binding proteins can be designed from scratch with high accuracy, affinity and success rates, showing promise for applications in drug delivery and sequestration.
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Publicly available dataset of protein-ligand affinities and structures! In the era of AI models, high quality data is the key!
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Facultat de Ciències, Tecnologia i Enginyeries de la UVic-UCC @uvic-fcte.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🔬 Biophysics Week a la @uvic-ucc.cat! El 25/03/26 acollim la xerrada “Nanorobots in action” amb la Dra. Maria Guix Noguera, per descobrir com la biofísica nano pot transformar la medicina del futur. 📍 Aula Magna 🕥 11:30 h 🔗 Inscripcions: tuit.cat/NgpwL #BioPhyzza2026 #BiophysicsWeek #UVicUCC #FCTE
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CIC biomaGUNE @cicbiomagune.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🚨 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🚨 💡epiGPTope: A Machine Learning-Based Epitope Generator and Classifier 📄 ACS Synthetic Biology 👉https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.5c00693
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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
In a development that could transform how scientists study cancer, neurodegeneration and inflammation, #UCSB researchers have invented a modular, genetically encoded, protein-based sensor that enables MRI machines to visualize molecular activity inside cells. Full story: ow.ly/cRmg50YqsiU
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UCSB researchers develop a genetic sensor that could allow MRIs to image molecular-level changes
In a development that could transform how scientists study cancer, neurodegeneration and inflammation, researchers have invented a modular, genetically encoded, protein-based sensor that enables MRI machines to visualize molecular activity inside cells.
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Oh no... 😢 se va uno de los mejores blogs que recuerdo. No sólo divulgaban sobre economía y políticas públicas, también representaban una forma de afrontar el debate racional, sosegada, humilde frente a la complejidad. Una víctima más de la inmediatez y la polarización de las redes sociales.
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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 20/02/2026
A detailed comparison of de novo designed proteins by NMR finally puts to rest the idea that structure prediction confidence metrics have any correlation with local flexibility
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 19/02/2026
Finding one mutation that improves a protein is hard. Finding five that work together is exponentially harder. Today in @science.org, Hsu and Konermann labs present MULTI-evolve, a lab-in-the-loop framework that does it in just one machine learning-guided round.
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Nature @nature.com · 19/02/2026
“It’s a major advance, on the scale of an AlphaFold4. The problem, of course, is that we know nothing of the details.” Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance go.nature.com/3Mm2ZnQ
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‘An AlphaFold 4’ – scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI
Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left guessing how to achieve similar results.
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CIC bioGUNE @cicbiogune.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#bioGUNE_News | 🎉 Yesterday we celebrated our 21st anniversary at #CICbioGUNE @brtaeus.bsky.social with a cutting-edge scientific day 🔸 Isabel Fariñas on neural stem cell quiescence 🔸 June Ereño-Orbea on Siglec–sialoglycan cancer immunotherapy 🔗 www.cicbiogune.es/news/cic-bio...
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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 19/02/2026
My reply to @anshulkundaje.bsky.social on the other site has been quoted in this @nature.com report on Isomorphic's new DDE model, which relies on private data to a degree that is probably unprecedented in the history of this field 🧪🧬
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Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Papers are like buses... You wait for ages, then two come along at once. Huge congrats to @bornanovak.bsky.social and @jefflotthammer.bsky.social for pushing and driving every aspect of this work, preprinted ~1 year ago to the day (Friday before BPS), now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Accurate predictions of disordered protein ensembles with STARLING - Nature
The deep learning model STARLING can generate accurate ensembles of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins using only protein sequence as input.
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Edoardo Gianni @edogia.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n
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A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand
The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...
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Alex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pleased to share the final version of this behemoth of a paper, now finally published. I guess I can retire now? www.nature.com/articles/s41... More functional data, many thousands of words removed, and a few other updates from last year's preprint.
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Sequence and chemical specificity define the functional landscape of intrinsically disordered regions - Nature Cell Biology
Langstein-Skora, Schmid, Huth et al. propose that intrinsically disordered region functionality can be driven by the interplay between linear binding motifs and contextual chemical characteristics suc...
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Like, look at this wonderful hand drawn structures! www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful...
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How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins | Quanta Magazine
Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules.
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If you work with proteins, make sure to show your students Jane Richardson’s early drawings and sketches of protein structures. Not only because they are the foundation of virtually all protein representations today, but also because they are just beautiful!
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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Stories from #WomenInScience who changed how we visualize #proteins: Ahead of her 85th birthday, Jane Richardson (Duke Univ, @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social president 2012-13) discussed her life from making a telescope to developing ribbon diagrams for 3D protein structure www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Stories from the scientist who changed how we visualize proteins - Nature Reviews Chemistry
Ahead of her 85th birthday, Jane Richardson, Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, discussed her life in science from making her own telescope to developing the ribbon diagrams for the 3D stru...
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Amazing!
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
As scientists, we always hope to do something meaningful that improves people’s lives. @kwplaxco.bsky.social is achieving just that. Very exciting to see aptamer sensors moving one step closer to patients, and proud to have contributed my (little) grain of sand!
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Wavelength AND lifetime multiplexed imaging, cool! By @ciqus.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 19/01/2026
This is how we first teach chirality to our undergrads !
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Very interesting study on the cardiac toxicity of doxorubicin chemotherapy. By researchers from CNIC, Spain: academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...
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Anthracycline cardiotoxicity: role of metabolic vulnerability induced by cardiac pressure overload
AbstractBackground and Aims. Hypertension and valvular heart disease, both associated with left ventricular (LV) pressure overload, increase the risk of an
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I knew it!
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Max Fürst @maxfus.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New preprint🚨 Imagine (re)designing a protein via inverse folding. AF2 predicts the designed sequence to a structure with pLDDT 94 & you get 1.8 Å RMSD to the input. Perfect design? What if I told u that the structure has 4 solvent-exposed Trp and 3 Pro where a Gly should be? Why to be wary🧵👇
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Protein Society @proteinsociety.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
We are proud to introduce the Program Planning Committee for the 40th Anniversary Symposium of The Protein Society! This outstanding team will curate an unforgettable scientific program for our 2026 meeting. Stay tuned for more info! #PS40 #TheProteinSociety #ProteinScience #TPS2026
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
They are going down the folding funnel
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🙌👇👏
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Nature @nature.com · 26/11/2025
“There were some cells in there that were very messed up” In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man go.nature.com/44yj4MN
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We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
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CIC bioGUNE @cicbiogune.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
#bioGUNE_Outreach | 🎨 La ciencia y el arte vuelven a encontrarse en #CICbioGUNE @brtaeus.bsky.social Recibimos al alumnado de #ArgiArte en una nueva edición de #CICbioArte para explorar el metabolismo a través del #Pointillismo 🙏 Eskerrik asko! 🔗 www.cicbiogune.es/news/cic-bio...
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CIC bioGUNE @cicbiogune.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#bioGUNE_Seminars | 👥 Yesterday we held a new #OncoSeminar session at #CICbioGUNE @brtaeus.bsky.social under #PreMetaCan, where researchers shared recent advances and challenges. A participatory format that fostered synergies, collaboration, and new connections @contracancerinv.bsky.social
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Not only an impressive high-throughput characterization of protein stability, but so many interesting take away messages... Arginines bad for solubility Solubility predictors not great Anti-correlation between aggregation and folding stability ... Amazing work!
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Gabriel Rocklin @grocklin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New preprint! We measured temperature- and pH-induced aggregation for over 18,000 natural and de novo designed protein domains!
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CIC bioGUNE @cicbiogune.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#bioGUNE_Research | The @caixaresearch.bsky.social funds nearly €1M for #GlycoTARGET, led by June Ereño-Orbea #CICbioGUNE #Ikerbasque @brtaeus.bsky.social, to boost cancer immunotherapy with partners from Spain & Portugal 🔗 cicbiogune.es/news/la-caix... @urv.cat @champalimaudr.bsky.social
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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Giant telescope project, long planned for Hawaii, gets cozy with Spain | Science | AAAS 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Giant telescope project, long planned for Hawaii, gets cozy with Spain
Spain’s €400 million offer could induce Thirty Meter Telescope to switch sites
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Gabriel Ortega @gabolab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Saw this on the other site by @smead2.bsky.social Synuclein spreading as prions… great news for all researchers ever working with synuclein!
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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
ahem, ONE of THE chemical biology conferences of 2026:) www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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Chemical Tools for Complex Biological Systems IV
Organizers Luke Lavis, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Matthew Bogyo, Stanford University Zev Gartner, University of California, San Francisco Jennifer Prescher, University of California, Irvine
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Bryan Dickinson @chembiobryan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Registration for THE chemical biology conference of 2026 is now open! EMBO ChemBio 2026 in Heidelberg DeGrado, Arikin, Picotti (Keynotes). @lmkdassama.bsky.social @brianliau.bsky.social @rhodamine110.bsky.social @benlehner.bsky.social @alitavassoli.bsky.social www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Chemical biology 2026
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
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CIC bioGUNE @cicbiogune.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
#bioGUNE_News | 💡 The European project #RGNcestry, awarded an #ERCSyG, brings together #CICbioGUNE and Instituto Biofisika to study CRISPR evolution and develop next-gen gene-editing and diagnostic tools 🔗 www.cicbiogune.es/news/cic-bio... @erc.europa.eu
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Nature @nature.com · 29/10/2025
Nature research paper: Nanobody-based recombinant antivenom for cobra, mamba and rinkhals bites go.nature.com/47qdigV
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Nanobody-based recombinant antivenom for cobra, mamba and rinkhals bites - Nature
A recombinant antivenom composed of eight nanobodies provides broad protection against venom-induced lethality and dermonecrosis in mice challenged with venoms from cobras, mambas and rinkhals snakes.
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